Ad Hominem

“You do not want to become His disciples too, do you?” ~John 9:27 I’m not certain if the freshly sighted man asked this in innocence or insouciance…or in some other way. It didn’t matter. The reaction was immediate and visceral: They reviled him ~John 9:28a  Seems a bit over the top for clerics to go around reviling people. The word in the Greek for reviled is: λοιδορέω (loi-do-re’-ō) and originates from a word meaning “mischief”.  But, it sounds rather odd to say that the preachers mischiefed him. We get a bit closer with the more modern word, abused. That works nicely. They abused him. It was a council full of priests swearing – in the old fashioned sense of the word (i.e. oaths and pejoratives) – at a solitary, young Jewish man who had just been given the gift of sight. Imagine that! You get healed and you get sworn at by a flock of frocks.
 
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Professional lecturers are not used to being lectured. Totally ignoring the merits of the argument put forth, they threw a clergy hissy fit: They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” So they put him out. ~John 9:34. The formerly blind man was summarily excommunicated. If you’ve not the wherewithal to counter the message, then destroy the messenger. In philosophy this is referred to as a logical fallacy or an ad hominem attack. It’s been around for ages. It’s still going strong today. Many are afraid to think or to be proven wrong. Absent a reply, the character of the opponent is assassinated. You were born entirely in sins…  They nailed the ad hominem.