Touchstone mag features this excellent piece by the excellent Frederica Mathewes-Green entitled “Meet your Mocker” where she takes on the difficult subject about appropriate and inappropriate humor for a Christian. The whole article is a must-read, but the following graph ought to be printed out and made into a henna tattoo we can wear around:

When Jesus tells us not to even say “You fool!” to another, when he links malicious anger to the spirit of Murder, we glimpse the darker side of this pleasure. It is deliciously gratifying to see idiots roundly put down, but that sense of gratification is not really one of our better points. And maybe idiots deserve more mercy than that, since that company includes all of us sooner or later. I think of this whenever I hear a Christian smugly say that he or she does not “suffer fools gladly.” Well, I think, Jesus suffers you.