[delacoert]

So we see then that sarcasm can be used righteously, but we must define the goal of sarcasm if we are to avoid the more invidious uses that hinder Christian truth. The goal of satire, as with all forms of rebuke, should be to save a person from error.

The meme creeping into recent Religion Forum threads is that sarcasm and mockery is too mean and devoid of Christian niceness.

I say, "Hogwash!"

[Vendome]

Christian niceness?

I don’t think it was very nice of Christ to tear some place apart, though he was kind enough to rebuild it in three days. /s

[brytlea]

Yeah, but I do need to watch my tongue. It can be a little too sharp. :(

[Reaganesque]

Mockery is fine. I love that passage in 1 Kings. However, when its all you have to offer and you offer it all the time, that’s when it crosses the line.

[the long march]

Oh I agree. If sarcasm is not acceptable as a form of rebuke then I we need to dispense with writers such as C. S. Lewis

[Godzilla]

The meme creeping into recent Religion Forum threads is that sarcasm and mockery is too mean and devoid of Christian niceness. I say, "Hogwash!"

I couldn't agree with you more. Sarcasm and mockery tend to arrive from others who provide absolutely NO content to the particular thread, only to ridicule individual posters and try to start flame wars to shut those threads down.

Paul when refering to the judizers in Galations wished they would go the whole way and castrate themselves. The self appointed critics would have labeled Paul as a bigot and a hate speaker.

[mrreaganaut]

Satire, in a way, is telling the truth; in making it obvious why the object of the satire is ridiculous, error is rebuked.

[reaganaut]

placemarker

[Utah Binger]

I agree

[AmericanArchConservative]

Yeah - as some may have seen by my comment on a recently posted thread, I don’t even spare the religion moderator from my caustic witticisms. But - either they knew I was right, or else my smooth sophistication went right over their head, because I was neither banned nor suspended for my sharp snark.

I seldom spare my knives or razors when it comes to deconstructing the Smith-ite theology of lies, or its co-author(s)...I’m even less charitable with the P.hony R.eligion O.f P.eace {P.R.O.P. - phony religion, phony peace... coming to you from Arabia since 632 AD}

A.A.C.