Some of the video games I have most anticipated this year and some last year are filled with needless profanity. And not just random swearing resulting from a fit of anger (not that that is even remotely OK), but the characters talk like loggers in normal conversation. And these games are targeting kids from grade school to old dudes like me. In most cases, the swearing is awkward, like the computer nerds that wrote these games had a quota of curse words to use and sprinkled them throughout the games randomly. Personally, I don't think it adds anything to the games, I think it reduces their likability.
Most of the heroes from the silver screen I remember from when I was a kid, either didn't swear at all, or only used one or maybe two curse words in an entire movie. Frankly, I am more troubled that the barrage of gutter talk and sex in these games is far more detrimental to our kids than the use of guns are. I think kids today are exposed to way too much negative influence than even when I was a kid. They lose their precious innocence at an early age, and it's my money hungry generation that is all too willing to profit at any cost and using anything to sell their wares to kids through any means they can.
This obviously isn't anything you can legislate away, it is the essence of why a lot of things that used to be part of every day commerce are now demonized as evil Capitalism, when it's the evil in the hearts and souls of men left unchecked by society, and in some cases defended as free speech that are to blame. To we who believe, a much simpler word for it is "sin". To me, this kind of a lack of moral restraint is at the root of the free market and our very society's demise today, and OUR lack of fortitude and willingness to identify the culprits and single out the offenses as bad business is just as much to blame. Instead we let politicians and the willing news media propagandize bad behavior as belonging to an inanimate object that should be taken from the populace, as if evil will stop if one of the tools is prohibited. Or we let them spin a yarn of blaming some external force, or congenital anomaly for evil behavior. Jesus clears it up in Mark 7:5 by saying "Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them".
The Eagles had a song on their "Hell Freezes Over" album called "Get Over It" which I find very appropriate for what is needed for our country. We need to quit blaming everything but the cause of the evils today and forgo the loss of money, political correctness, propaganda, and the like, and not settle for anything less than the men and women that founded this country settled for. They left England to escape some of the very things we are trying to embrace as a nation today. The irony would be laughable if it weren't so sad.
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