In the last decade, television executives have been producing more crime shows. Crime shows depict real crimes inflicted by people on friends, families, and total strangers.
We may learn a lot about what criminal behaviors have in common from crime shows. An amazing crime show told the story of an attractive woman who wanted to sell her rental property to an associate who couldn’t afford it. So, they killed the husband to collect on his life insurance. That provided the widow with the cash to make the purchase.
The woman who arranged the murder soon lost her money. She went to Las Vegas and found work driving for a limousine company. She married a passenger, an extraordinarily wealthy heir to an oil fortune.
Her demon couldn’t let her be happy with sharing the income of hundreds of millions. She was caught trying to steal a few thousand. The husband got rid of her. Then, she was arrested for the murder. She had no money for legal defense, and was sent to prison.
Crime is followed by punishment, in this world or the next. The cause of every crime is a temptation and a demon that keeps some human program from using its free will to resist that temptation.
Crime shows. All of them provide some modified version of the same story. Frequent divorce and adultery is common among victims and perpetrators. There is an excessive attachment to money and possessions that assume an unnatural importance to those featured in crime shows. Sin is at the heart of every crime. A demonic being is at the heart of every sin. Temptations are not resisted.
Attending Catholic Mass provides us with Christ’s Body and Blood, against which no demon can stand. It is no surprise that demons discourage people from being Roman Catholics, attending Mass, and receiving Communion.
