[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.

[delacoert]

To quote Charles Spurgeon:

"Men are perishing, and if it be unpolite to tell them so, it can only be so where the devil is the master of the ceremonies. Out upon your soul-destroying politeness; the Lord give us a little honest love to souls, and this superficial gentility will soon vanish. I could with considerable refreshment to myself pour sarcasm after sarcasm upon religious cowardice. I would cheerfully sharpen my knife and dash it into the heart of this mean vice. There is nothing to be said in its favor. It is not even humble; it is only pride of too beggarly a sort to own itself."