{"id":625,"date":"2011-01-06T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2011\/01\/welcome-to-my-blog-play-nice\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T17:49:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:49:40","slug":"welcome-to-my-blog-play-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2011\/01\/welcome-to-my-blog-play-nice.html","title":{"rendered":"welcome to my blog. play nice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026 \u201cIf you frequently find yourself losing your cool in discussions at certain blogs, stop commenting on them.  If you try that and don\u2019t succeed, stop going to certain blogs altogether.  <span style=\"font-weight:bold\">It is the sin of pride that convinces us that we must engage certain people in order to show them the truth.  The fact is that people who can\u2019t engage each other productively force one another away from the truth, not towards it.  The Holy Spirit has more instruments than just you<\/span>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Now take off your home made tin foil mitre and back away from the keyboard; but not before reading all <a href=\"http:\/\/vox-nova.com\/2011\/01\/01\/10-comman%E2%80%A6-er-suggestions-for-a-better-catholic-blogosphere-in-2011\/#more-15034\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">10 Suggestions For a Better Catholic Blogosphere in 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18613340-7124497534811267567?l=thecrescat.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 \u201cIf you frequently find yourself losing your cool in discussions at certain blogs, stop commenting on them. If you try that and don\u2019t succeed, stop going to certain blogs altogether. 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