"I know sarcasm is really the only time people tell the truth."
-Propaganda (www.humblebeast.com)
"Thanks for the Christmas card you sent me, Violet."
"I didn't send you a Christmas card, Charlie Brown."
"Don't you know sarcasm when you hear it?!"
-from Charlie Brown Christmas
"You see, that is the sad, sorry thing about sarcasm: it's really funny." -Brandon Sanderson
"I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain." -Cassandra Claire
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What is sarcasm anyway? Have you ever looked it up in the dictionary?
Sarcasm - 1. A sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain.
2. A mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, or often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual.
The word sarcasm comes from the Greek word "sarkasmos", which literally means "to tear flesh."
(Merriam-Webster's Dictionary)
So what are we doing when we are being sarcastic? We are doing it to spite someone. We are putting them on a torture rack and are tearing at their flesh. When Jesus talked about "loving your neighbor as yourself," I really don't think he meant, "Use sarcasm against them as often as possible!"
Sarcasm is really not love at all. When are we sarcastic the most? It is usually in gossip. We say some snide remark about someone under our breath, like, "Oh great, look who just showed up! On time as always, right?"
Sarcasm is a quick and easy way to deal with pain. You feel hopeless and that there is no help for you, so the best way to cope with it is to just laugh about it. A lot of the talk about politics has sarcasm written all over it. Politicians make laws and someone constructs some "witty" cartoon bashing that politician to pieces.
Sarcasm is a means to cope with the blood pouring out of our broken hearts. You know that snarky, kind of annoying co-worker of yours who keeps making snide remarks about men? What do you think her story is? She had a husband once. He would come home every night drunk. He would hit her and call her stupid, ugly and fat. Every night it was the same thing, and every night for five years this woman cried herself to sleep. Finally, she mustered enough courage to hire an attorney and divorce him.
So what is my point? We don't need sarcasm, people. Let's dump her and never call her again. Instead of using snarky, snide remarks as a fig leaf of shame behind our sin and brokenness, let us talk to God about it.
Have you ever done that? Just talk to God: venting to Him, crying to Him? It's humbling doing that because you feel filthy. Things come out of you: anger, shame, resentment....SIN.
The Bible talks so much about people doing that so beautifully. They come to God in tears and ashes, and God gives them comfort, forgiveness and freedom.
Do you think that is possible for you?
(Merriam-Webster's Dictionary)
So what are we doing when we are being sarcastic? We are doing it to spite someone. We are putting them on a torture rack and are tearing at their flesh. When Jesus talked about "loving your neighbor as yourself," I really don't think he meant, "Use sarcasm against them as often as possible!"
Sarcasm is really not love at all. When are we sarcastic the most? It is usually in gossip. We say some snide remark about someone under our breath, like, "Oh great, look who just showed up! On time as always, right?"
Sarcasm is a quick and easy way to deal with pain. You feel hopeless and that there is no help for you, so the best way to cope with it is to just laugh about it. A lot of the talk about politics has sarcasm written all over it. Politicians make laws and someone constructs some "witty" cartoon bashing that politician to pieces.
Sarcasm is a means to cope with the blood pouring out of our broken hearts. You know that snarky, kind of annoying co-worker of yours who keeps making snide remarks about men? What do you think her story is? She had a husband once. He would come home every night drunk. He would hit her and call her stupid, ugly and fat. Every night it was the same thing, and every night for five years this woman cried herself to sleep. Finally, she mustered enough courage to hire an attorney and divorce him.
So what is my point? We don't need sarcasm, people. Let's dump her and never call her again. Instead of using snarky, snide remarks as a fig leaf of shame behind our sin and brokenness, let us talk to God about it.
Have you ever done that? Just talk to God: venting to Him, crying to Him? It's humbling doing that because you feel filthy. Things come out of you: anger, shame, resentment....SIN.
The Bible talks so much about people doing that so beautifully. They come to God in tears and ashes, and God gives them comfort, forgiveness and freedom.
Do you think that is possible for you?
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