Should Christians Be Snarky on Social Media?
“I’m as guilty as anybody, but in almost every case, I immediately feel badly about it. I may feel great for a moment, but the minute I hit ‘Send,’ conviction starts creeping in.” - Phil Cooke
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I’m not making a point here, I’m just thinking out loud. And in that process, thinking that I could do a much better job of responding to questions and even criticism with a little more grace.
After all, there’s a difference between answers that make people think, and answers that humiliate.
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
Yes, I often think of this verse:
KJV Pro 13:10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
esv and nau call it “insolence” that’s even worse
Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3
I suspect that times for appropriate biblical mocking do exist, but like righteous anger, is a much smaller category than we tend to think that it is.
Dave Barnhart
I think sometimes it’s just an expression of annoyance and frustration—in an impatient way. For me, I feel the urge to get snarky most when I’ve just read something that seems really smug or arrogant+ignorant. There’s an impulse to put them in their place/tell them off/humble them myself and right now.
So, as Don noted, there’s a pride element for sure but with it some impatience. But there’s a tainted hunger for truth and justice in there also. It’s not all sinful, though all flawed.
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
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