Seething Sino- Suit-Seeker Slays Sinister Cyber-Saber Seller

According to Reuters, Qiu Chengwei, a Shanghai online game player, took the law into his hands when he stabbed Zhu Caoyuan to death earlier this week.

Two characters battle it out in Mir 3

It seems that Qiu had won a powerful "dragon saber" while playing "Mir 3" and, being, by nature, a nice guy (apparently), he "loaned" the saber to Zhu. Zhu then turned around and sold the saber (which only exists in the world of the online game) to another player for the equivalent of $870 US.

Qiu sued to either get the saber back or to collect the money from Zhu but became impatient when the wheels of justice moved too slow.

Legal experts in China are still debating whether an item existing only in cyber-space can actually be considered legal property subject to existing law or whether such property is only illusory and of no real value under the law.

Personally, although I believe that a fanciful imagination is a good gift from God, I also believe that, when we allow our fantasy to trump the real world of God's creation and replace God with gods created by a computer programmer, we have committed a significant sin....the sin of idolatry.

Jesus said, "What does it profit us if we gain the world but lose our soul?"

Qiu and Zhu lost both a life and a soul without even caring about the world at all...at least the real one. It was literally a fight over "nothing."