Games vs. Religion as Violent Inspiration
Hm, interesting how the media jumps all over it when a shooter appears to be (like the vast majority of kids in USA) a player of video games which have violent content. But how relatively silent they are when the harebrained “cause” might be religion. Examples abound, not the least of which are those, whether they be Christian, Muslim, Jew or other, (hm, few Buddhists…) who readily discard their lives or that of others to pursue a religious ideal in act of “war”, as they define it. To be more direct, I notice that in an article about the Viginia Tech shooter Seung Hui Cho, aka “Ax Ishmael”, his putative religious delusions are described but in no way commented on as a cause of his horrific act. As well they should not. (continued »)
