Lmao exactly. Earths dying but the Notre Dame looks pretty so uwu yay!
Controversial but i feel too strongly about how fucked the distribution of wealth is (especially in America) to not reblog this
I WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS RIGHT HERE^^^^^ oceans are in danger…
The Notre Dame fire was truly heartbreaking, but honestly… imagine the difference we could make if we used that money to help our planet…
The outrage isn’t that money went to Notre dame INSTEAD of *insert serious issue here*. The outrage is that there’s enough money in the world to be able to fix Notre Dame AND environmental damage AND give everyone free healthcare AND fix a slew of other institutional issues but the super rich are simply unwilling to do so for entirely self-serving reasons.
And that’s fucked yo.
This is actually the most heartless post I’ve ever seen.
I always used to think of Tumblr as the social network of kindness and understanding. I (used to) come here after reading the toxic right-wing comments on Facebook to be around people like me. People that thought like I did. People that understood that the cornerstones of being human are love and understanding. People that didn’t judge based on religion, or sexual orientation, or gender, or anything like that. People that pushed for representation and diversity and for women’s voices to be heard. And then I see a post like this, actually reblogged by a user I have always liked and admired, and it feels like a punch in the gut. If this was a Muslim church, no one on this site would so much as bat an eye. But because it’s Christianity, a religion that everyone on this site automatically associates with hate, narrow-mindedness, cruelty, and war, thousands of users forget that there are modern-day Christians who have a heart and soul that you’re capable of crushing with a few callous and uneducated words. And why? What are you actually getting out of this, other than pouring salt on an open wound? Do you think that there are no good Christians? After 9/11, no one said, “Well, frankly, those buildings just stood for the power of the white man so really....” (the implication being, “so really they had it coming”). Because you don’t take a loss that someone feels in their soul, and make light of it.Or at least, you didn’t use to.
And I see the poster above me talking about how the “super rich” are donating to Notre Dame, as opposed to donating to Notre Dame AND the various charities and causes that that poster (and I too!) think are important. This is RELIGION. It outstrips every single earthly thing. To a Christian, as a whole, the world is temporary and souls are what live on. That’s a pretty common belief. So when there is a “building” like Notre Dame, that has saved souls (in Christian belief), that housed probably the most important Christian artifact of all time (The Crown of Thornes), that has the ability to save even more souls, move more people to study religion that much more intently, that’s important. I can’t say that everyone that donated money was thinking about Christian beliefs. Hell, that’s probably not even true. I’m sure a lot of people that donated were thinking about tourism and the bottom dollar, etc. But what you’re (the general Tumblr “you,” not the “you” I reblogged this from, because we are totally good there) not going to do is rake my religion through the mud, and pour salt on my open wound when I’m still healing. I am, like all Christians are, still a person, even if I’m a person who belongs to a religion you don’t agree with.
I’ve heard it said that it’s inevitable. That if we live long enough, we eventually become the thing we hate. So congrats, everyone. This is cruelty and bullying at its finest.
