{"id":811,"date":"2016-03-20T21:42:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T09:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiescent.wordpress.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2016-03-20T21:42:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T09:42:34","slug":"ellul-on-forgiving-and-forgetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/2016\/03\/20\/ellul-on-forgiving-and-forgetting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellul on forgiving and forgetting"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;there is more mercy in the heart of the individual than in the memories of society or its information systems.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SOURCE: Jacques Ellul, <em>Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World<\/em> (San Francisco: Harper &amp; Row, 1983), 73.<\/p>\n<p>Ellul&#8217;s comment is true in an era like ours where the state captures and stores our data and records in massive databases. But this was a comment before the internet, and social media where we store things ourselves and often emails and posts which we would rather people forgot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;there is more mercy in the heart of the individual than in the memories of society or its information systems.&#8221; SOURCE: Jacques Ellul, Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World (San Francisco: Harper &amp; Row, 1983), 73. Ellul&#8217;s comment is true in an era like ours where the state captures and stores our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,34,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ellul","category-forgiveness","category-internet","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}