Texas shooting, is there a story behind the story?

More proof of a fallen world.

Hollywood icons recently have apologized for sexual depravity. A Hollywood producer has been accused of rape; by multiple women. Hollywood stars acknowledge sexual favors for the exchange of awards or parts in a movie. And now, another mass shooting in a house of worship in a small town in Texas.

How could the sexual depravity of the Hollywood “elite” and a horrific mass shooting in a small church be tied together? I believe they have a digital common denominator.

First, I am convinced that the confusing nature of American sexuality is embodied in a generation that grew up on pornography. Openly introduced by the late Hugh Hefner, then taken to extreme levels by Hustler entrepreneur Larry Flynt. So many young people learned the fantasy ideas of sex and sexuality by the pretend world of these magazines. Then later, as the computer came of age, still pictures were transformed into video and later live streaming. The creation of feeding this insatiable appetite for sex, sexuality and experimental sexuality were seeds sown in a nation; and now the produce of which we are now witnessing. Men who can’t keep their hands-off women, who don’t know boundaries, women who dress overly provocatively, men and women who don’t understand the God created nature of human sexuality and pro-creation. I have thought for some time that pornography is the root to so many issues in our society.

With regard to the horrific shooting in a small Texas town; I think it too, probably has a digital root. This young generation has grown up playing video games. Games that are not just real –life like, but games that devalue human life. They are diversionary experiences that take the user into gun battles, killing and shooting human beings. All for digital sport. But what we don’t realize is the things that enter our eyes, the sounds that enter our ears, the ideas that are conjured up in a game, are in fact creating a worldview. All very passive, but in fact when you play them, you’re not just passing time by, you’re participating in self –talk; get down, shoot, get that one, win!

It’s so easy to blame a gun for the Texas massacre. It’s also easy to call Weinstein a pervert. It’s certainly spot on to call Kevin Spacey a sexual deviant, if in fact this man sexually confronted a 14-year-old.  But the hard thing to do is ask the question, “What was it that these people did in their private world that cause their behavior to be what it was. What molded their worldview?”

In the end, we are a product of what we have fed our minds. We need to be a generation that says no to pornography and no to violent video games.

Our heart is an empty shell and will always be filled with something. Consider God. He is the only thing that our insatiable desires can be fully quenched. All other things lead to emptiness. 

We'll soon find out what prompted the young Texan to go into a church building and begin shooting at people, from age 5 and up. But what we'll never learn most likely is the story behind the story.

God help our nation!