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A Culture Of
Death
by Mike Minton
Another school shooting, this time in Minnesota. The gunman: a boy of 16 who has
grown up in this country which values life, especially innocent life, but
little. The results: 10 dead, including the shooter, and 7 wounded. The bottom
line: we produced him...and many just like him.
I do not want to appear to be giving this kid a pass here; certainly his actions
were terribly wrong. I think we could all agree that it is just flat wrong to
kill innocent people in cold blood...ESPECIALLY children. Oh, wait, that sounds
kind of like abortion, doesn't it?
According to statistics from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, between 1973 (Roe v.
Wade) and 1998, there have been 36.5 MILLION legal abortions in the United
States of America. This would be the murder of 36.5 MILLION INNOCENT children.
How can we POSSIBLY expect the unaborted children in this country to respect
other innocent lives? What a fine example we have set for those kids who have
survived the abortion holocaust.
Then we have the case of Terri Schiavo in Florida. Here is an innocent woman who
is (or at least at one time was) nothing more than disabled. Another fine
example for our children: If a person is a burden--kill them. Why go to all the
trouble of bathing and feeding such a person. They have nothing productive to
add to society, so just terminate them, right?
There are many influences which have contributed to this culture of death to
which we are exposing our children. One of the most horrific is the advent of
gruesome video games which make slaughtering people nothing more than the
feelingless maneuvering of a joystick. Please indulge me and read the following
which I have found on the web.
In preparation for this article, I ran a search of 'Most violent video games.' I
came across a site created by a fellow calling himself Tim 'Corleone' Wambolt. 'Corleone'
lists what he calls the 100 most violent video games of all time. These
critiques may be viewed at
http://p204.ezboard.com/fthetop100mostviolentvideogamesofalltime87239frm2 . I
would like to share his glorifying review of "the most violent game of all
time." It is called Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend. In this 'review,' 'Mr.
Corleone' just raves about the game's gruesome ways that you can kill people.
Some examples of these morbid activities are that, "you can brutally murder
innocent people in a variety of ways...[Y]ou can shoot people, causing lots of
blood to spurt out, you can kick someone to death over and over...[Y]ou can chop
their heads off with a shovel and play soccer with their heads...the bodies
don't fade away either, so you can stack corpses into a pile of up to 200." And
this is the mild stuff.
XXX The following is very graphic, and may offend some readers. For the true,
shocking effect these games have on these kids, I am leaving the language as it
appears on the site. XXX
'Mr. Corleone' continues describing the game "...You can piss all over people,
even in their mouths. [I]f you piss in a gay guy's mouth, he'll enjoy it. If you
piss on a cop's doughnut he'll throw up, allowing a disintegration with a
shotgun. You can grab a cat and shove the barrel of your gun up its asshole and
use the cat as a silencer. There are even marching parades you can unload on,
like a Gay Pride march, a Minority parade, and a cop parade, you can set them on
fire..."
"If you want to commit suicide, press the 'K' key and you can put a grenade into
your mouth saying, 'I regret nothing' and blow your whole head apart. [A]nd all
this happens to civilians and innocent people minding their own business.
There's no limit to what you can do." Mind you, this is just ONE of the top 100
cited by 'Corleone.'
What kind of sick, twisted minds are we raising in this country that would
glorify such evil simulations. And what kind of parent would allow their kid to
have such a game. And just as bad, if not worse, is the fact that many parents
are probably so uninterested in their children's activities that they probably
have no idea how violent and damaging these games are.
Is it any wonder these kids are killing each other, their parents, grandparents,
and police officers on an almost daily basis? Come on America, stand up and be
counted. Our children NEED our help. They NEED limits set. And we, as parents,
need backbone!
God help us after we have set such examples for our kids. God give us the
strength and wisdom to take our country, and our children, back!
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