The Guilty Pleasures of Violence

Though I had an inkling at the time I played COD that it was teaching me something, it’s taken me quite a while to understand that we are designed to be taught and molded throughout our lives—not just up until the magical ages of eighteen or twenty-one when we like to think our minds and hearts are fully formed and beyond any further influence. This is how our mighty God created us. Whatever we ingest becomes part of us. This is true when we ingest junk food or healthy food and when we ingest violence and vengeance or peace and forgiveness. ...I recognized that I am drawn to the sin of vengeance because of concupiscence. Because of the “entertainment” I’ve ingested over the years, despite having quit gaming and most secular entertainment about ten years ago, I have a brain that has been taught to punish others and to see this punishment as always justified and entertaining in some way—whether it is justified, as it is in this case in my opinion, or isn’t.