MBFLP 108 – Boys, Violence, and War

Photo: Neil McGuire / Gratisography 

Whether you allow it or not, whether you encourage it or don’t, it seems that boys will naturally gravitate toward games and toys relating to fights, force, and war. If you don’t provide them, they’ll make ’em – to a boy, even a banana becomes a weapon. What do you think about this? Is this anything to permit in a Christian home? Can anything good come of it? Or should we accept it as normal and seek to train it for godly use? We take a brief look into a very big subject – boys, violence, and war!