{"id":293,"date":"2007-01-19T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/the-case-against-politeness\/"},"modified":"2007-01-19T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T16:00:25","slug":"the-case-against-politeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/the-case-against-politeness\/","title":{"rendered":"The case against politeness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I say something, my goal should be to communicate. I should try to understand how my message will be received by the person I&#8217;m communicating with. The fact that they may not understand it should affect how I communicate my message. The fact that they do not receive it might affect how I communicate my message. But the fact that they may not like it should not affect my message itself. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m urging someone to escape from a burning building, I won&#8217;t stop telling them just because they&#8217;d rather stay in bed, or because they think I&#8217;m joking, or because they think I just want to cause them trouble or embarrassment. I must keep changing the way I express my urgent message until they understand what they need to do. But I must not stop until they do, even if it seems rude. Because it&#8217;s life-saving.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever God sends his word to put our selfish nature to death, it seems impolite. It seems rude. It makes us uncomfortable. But not because it&#8217;s not true. But because it is true. Not because we don&#8217;t understand it. But because we do understand it. Not because his word isn&#8217;t effective. But because it is effective. Death is never polite, but resurrection follows it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I say something, my goal should be to communicate. I should try to understand how my message will be received by the person I&#8217;m communicating with. The fact that they may not understand it should affect how I communicate my message. The fact that they do not receive it might affect how I communicate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desperate-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}