Lest righteousness becomes self-centered

“Is it okay to play this game?” “Well, it’s not like it’s bad. I think, maybe, if it was a bit more graphic or something… but this is fine.” Now, I’m not here to judge whether the game in question here was in fact good or bad. That is not my goal. What I mean to call attention to today is the motive. It’s far too easy to justify something that we want to be good. If we want to do, think, speak, or see a certain thing, we want to think then that it cannot be anything bad. We may call things...