

Reminder that Omar no longer has a blog due to being terminated like many other Palestinians on tumblr.
The reason he's been taking paypal donations instead of asking for donations to his GFM is because with his father's medical condition, he can't wait on the funds. Omar is my friend and I trust him. If you would like to donate to his GFM for evacuation, you can do that here, but his father's medical needs are much more urgent.
I could not have been on tumblr 10 years ago. I was the antithesis of a good person.
Reminder that Omar no longer has a blog due to being terminated like many other Palestinians on tumblr.
The reason he's been taking paypal donations instead of asking for donations to his GFM is because with his father's medical condition, he can't wait on the funds. Omar is my friend and I trust him. If you would like to donate to his GFM for evacuation, you can do that here, but his father's medical needs are much more urgent.
Reminder that Omar no longer has a blog due to being terminated like many other Palestinians on tumblr.
The reason he's been taking paypal donations instead of asking for donations to his GFM is because with his father's medical condition, he can't wait on the funds. Omar is my friend and I trust him. If you would like to donate to his GFM for evacuation, you can do that here, but his father's medical needs are much more urgent.
Reminder that Omar no longer has a blog due to being terminated like many other Palestinians on tumblr.
The reason he's been taking paypal donations instead of asking for donations to his GFM is because with his father's medical condition, he can't wait on the funds. Omar is my friend and I trust him. If you would like to donate to his GFM for evacuation, you can do that here, but his father's medical needs are much more urgent.
Reminder that Omar no longer has a blog due to being terminated like many other Palestinians on tumblr.
The reason he's been taking paypal donations instead of asking for donations to his GFM is because with his father's medical condition, he can't wait on the funds. Omar is my friend and I trust him. If you would like to donate to his GFM for evacuation, you can do that here, but his father's medical needs are much more urgent.
I mean the whole damn point of the Nativity story is that the supposed son of God (interpret Jesus how you fucking want, of course) was born to a couple of poor, exhausted peasants in the stable for the inn, and his first bed was a feeding trough for animals. That would nowadays be like a poor couple where the mother gives birth in a parking garage behind the motel because they couldn’t find a better place and nobody else would take them in. It’s a pretty gritty setting, and the idea is that God was reborn in some of the rock-bottom lowest circumstances. The only thing majestic was all the angels and shit, and of course motherly love
I get that a lot of the art portraying Madonna and Child as fabulously wealthy europeans in splendid robes and golden light was meant to glorify God + whichever nobility was sponsoring the artist, and while of course it’s genuinely beautiful art, it just always struck me as horribly missing the point, which is that the supposed son of God started in incredibly humble circumstances, among the kind of people that everyone else looks down on
My new favorite mordern interpretation is this work, José y Maria by Everett Patterson (http://www.everettpatterson.com)
‘Massacre des Innocents’ by Leon Cogniét, 1824. Although the Feast of the Holy Innocents is in a couple of days time, this painting is still really relevant in that it portrays Mary as how She really was: a scared refugee mum, so fearful that Her son was going to be one of the Innocents killed by King Herod.
Ezekiel 34 15-16 on the phone
Good news sticker above José
Maria sitting on a donkey
Shepherd Watches advertisement in the newspaper
Gloria sticker on the payphone
The tragic/hilarious thing is how all the hardcore Bible thumpers I know would look at that image and feel nothing but contempt for Jose and Maria.
Reminder that Omar no longer has a blog due to being terminated like many other Palestinians on tumblr.
The reason he's been taking paypal donations instead of asking for donations to his GFM is because with his father's medical condition, he can't wait on the funds. Omar is my friend and I trust him. If you would like to donate to his GFM for evacuation, you can do that here, but his father's medical needs are much more urgent.