Hey friends, Elisa Childers here. We are going to have a lesson in logic today. How to deal

with mockers. We're living in a world that is steeped in sarcasm and snark, and it's

everywhere from our children's programming all the way to the furthest corners of the

Internet. How can we, as followers of Jesus, avoid falling into some of these traps? Stay

logical, my friends. We're going to talk about it on today's podcast.

I'm sure it's happened to all of us where you will post a personal thought or opinion

or an article or a quote. And inevitably, somebody from the fur corners of the Internet will

find your post and throw up some kind of snarky meme or snappy one-liner comeback or sarcastic

comment. And I think it's important, as believers, as followers of Jesus, that we learn how to

interact with that type of communication because we are called to be salt and light in the

world. And we are not called to stoop to the level of making fun or mocking. And so today,

we're going to talk about how to deal with mockers. And the reason that it says it's a logic

lesson is because one of the surefire signs that someone doesn't have a good argument or a good

rebuttal or answer to something that someone else has said is that they will stoop to mocking

or sarcasm or some kind of shallow meme. That's actually a sign that you've made a good point

because they don't have anything to really come back with to interact with the actual idea you've

presented, but rather, they just have to kind of lower themselves to a personal attack or name

calling or something along those lines. And so, as a point of logic, there's a logical fallacy

called ad hominem. Ad hominem basically is just what I said. When somebody doesn't have an argument

or they don't interact with your actual argument, and instead, they attack what they perceive to be a

flaw in your character or they say you're just ignorant or it's some kind of a personal attack

with name calling. Some examples of this might be if somebody were to say you're too young to

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