Diversion from Reality

They then purchase diet pills, breast enhancements, plastic surgery, and other treatments to make their doll look good. In the game�s own description, the object is to have the �hottest, coolest, most famous bimbo in the whole world.�

While other games may not be quite as in your face as that, they are doing their own damage. Some studies say as many as 10 to 14 percent of families have someone who has become so obsessed with video games, Facebook, and other computer-based pastimes that their virtual lives are damaging their real lives.

And here is what should really concern Christian parents, as author Dick Staub of The Culturally Savvy Christian points out: �When diversion becomes a way of life, we avoid the very issues to which we should be most attentive. We are diverted from the grim, unpleasant truth that our lives lack meaning without God.

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