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hesso12
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is it a sin?what do you think.
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TARRAT
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Tim Staples, I believe it was played a great practical joke on CA. So I suppose this site doesn’t see much wrong with it, at least as harmless fun.
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Hoosier_Daddy
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Every year it is a fun day in my house! From hiding my wife’s car while she is at work, to the kids tricking me, or me taping down the sprayer on the sink, we have a blast. But we only relegate it to one day a year. No retaliation on other days…
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Lou2U
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triumphguy
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Why would it be a sin?
The biggest practical joke of all time was performed by our Lord and Saviour: using death to defeat death
As Chesterton wrote: It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Chesteron thought that reason was far more of a troublesome thing:
“Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”
“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.”
The biggest practical joke of all time was performed by our Lord and Saviour: using death to defeat death
As Chesterton wrote: It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Chesteron thought that reason was far more of a troublesome thing:
“Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”
“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.”
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wmw
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I love the Chesterton Quote, but I doubt he was saying it in reference to practical jokes or April fools day.
No matter how temporary a result of a practical joke is there is a matter of frightening someone that something has gone wrong and some inconvenience that what someone thought would happen with there personal property or their person does not. Just because people can laugh them off and forgive this imposition does not mean there is not harm or hurt. Where we have one person deciding to harm or hurt another even in some small way I don’t see how it can be considered anything but a sin.
Lets look at it another way and from the heart as the Chesterton quote is suggesting, is it loving?
Does a practical joke fit the definition of loving someone?
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
I don’t see how it might fit the definition of loving anyone.
What about the Golden rule?
Do unto others has you would have others do unto you.
There is a slim possibility that there are a few personalities that may actually enjoy being the target of a practical joke, but I think this is rather rare and for the most part people are not wanting this. Most seek revenge and therefore don’t object that what you gave me you may soon get back. This is more the golden rule in reverse; hence it is a perversion of it.
Chesterton had it right. The heart speaks louder than logic and the heart speaks out **against **practical jokes much stronger that logic.
No matter how temporary a result of a practical joke is there is a matter of frightening someone that something has gone wrong and some inconvenience that what someone thought would happen with there personal property or their person does not. Just because people can laugh them off and forgive this imposition does not mean there is not harm or hurt. Where we have one person deciding to harm or hurt another even in some small way I don’t see how it can be considered anything but a sin.
Lets look at it another way and from the heart as the Chesterton quote is suggesting, is it loving?
Does a practical joke fit the definition of loving someone?
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
I don’t see how it might fit the definition of loving anyone.
What about the Golden rule?
Do unto others has you would have others do unto you.
There is a slim possibility that there are a few personalities that may actually enjoy being the target of a practical joke, but I think this is rather rare and for the most part people are not wanting this. Most seek revenge and therefore don’t object that what you gave me you may soon get back. This is more the golden rule in reverse; hence it is a perversion of it.
Chesterton had it right. The heart speaks louder than logic and the heart speaks out **against **practical jokes much stronger that logic.
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DeniseNY
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No, it is not a sin. Practical jokes on April Fools Day; however, should be fun and not meant to hurt anyone
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Hoosier_Daddy
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So you think that when we play little jokes in our family on april fools day, when the kids set the ice machine to the kind of ice I don’t like, and then we all laugh, or when the kitchen sink sprayer hits me because I didn’t notice the rubber band on it, and we all laugh and giggle for days about it that we are sinning in our family? Are you judging me?
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ProVobis
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No more so than saying “Just kidding” after you shock them. 
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wmw
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Yes, I judge that I’d never teach kids to do things that might hurt or annoy others and reinforce it by making be a “fun” experience.
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wmw
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Good reason incorporates the knowledge expressed by the heart, in love.If it hurts or upsets someone then it is no longer a joke.
Joke = funny.
Chesterton was right about reason
We are poor judges of what people actually feel about these jokes. The pressure is ON to treat this as a fun time for all when internally your uncomfortable with being the brunt of being made a fool.
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wmw
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Your the one that want to take this on a personal level. I’m not engaging any further on your wish to make this about you or me.
I’ve explained my judgement in terms of christian principles of love and the golden rule. I’ve also backed the application of these via sociology.
What is your support of it? All I’ve heard is “it feels good so do it.” Blather all you want with diversions from the topic at hand; it does not make a loving disagreement, but just a clanging noise.
I’ve explained my judgement in terms of christian principles of love and the golden rule. I’ve also backed the application of these via sociology.
What is your support of it? All I’ve heard is “it feels good so do it.” Blather all you want with diversions from the topic at hand; it does not make a loving disagreement, but just a clanging noise.
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Hoosier_Daddy
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I was just foolin…
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Pax2u
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All depends on individual circumstances. Among people with like minds, a harmless prank meant as an April Fool’s joke is not sinful.
If you know a person does not like these kinds of pranks and you do it just to make them angry, then yes…that could be sinful. Or if you do something malicious…yes, that is sinful.
But the stuff people are describing that their family finds funny…the rubber band on the spray nozzle, etc…nope.
I tried to fool my DH on April Fool’s day…came downstairs and said “Oh my, we got a lot of snow last night” (the grass was bare!). It didn’t work…he’d already looked outside. I felt no need to go back to Confession before the next Mass!
If you know a person does not like these kinds of pranks and you do it just to make them angry, then yes…that could be sinful. Or if you do something malicious…yes, that is sinful.
But the stuff people are describing that their family finds funny…the rubber band on the spray nozzle, etc…nope.
I tried to fool my DH on April Fool’s day…came downstairs and said “Oh my, we got a lot of snow last night” (the grass was bare!). It didn’t work…he’d already looked outside. I felt no need to go back to Confession before the next Mass!
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