The question …

I recently received an email note from a friend. She wrote:

Not just a guy thing …

Indeed, there are a number of articles online dealing with this issue. Reviewing them reveals something interesting, if not downright scary. Pornography usage and cybersex traditionally have been viewed as a "male problem," because men are thought to be more easily excited by what they see. But now women are at risk too.

Greed is the surprising accompaniment to almost all our sins.

We all like lists. They help create organized presentations, and they are easy to remember. Perhaps that is why God chose a list format to present some of his most well-known laws. But what if we took that list — the Ten Commandments — and reduced it to its essence? What basic sins would we identify? One hopelessly alliterative preacher condensed the Decalogue to a clever three-point quip: man's chief temptations are "gold, girls, and glory." Gary Downing, in his article "Accountability That Makes Sense," agrees, calling them "the three issues with which we all struggle: money, sex, and power."

But perhaps we could distill even further, to a sort of grand unifying sin: greed. It is the misplaced love and desire that drives broken

The other day I reposted an article I wrote for CTLibrary.com titled, "Violence In, Violence Out." A couple responses provided sufficient motivation to write a lengthy response--which I summarily decided should be a blog entry instead. To follow the conversation, check out the original post.

Marc V. (also known under the blogonymn, "Spudlet") wrote:

Hi, Marc, thanks for the comment!

I'm not a student of psychology or Col. David Grossman's field, "Killology," but what he says rings true. I tend to believe the aversion to kill another human is a hardwired part of our natures ... after all, it's the ultimate insult to the imago dei within, and while "instinct" can be explained by evolution, this kind of hard-wiring

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