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moredifferentthanusual · 4 months

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Hey people of tumblr I have an idea of a way to help support Gaza. This one's especially for people living in Christian areas with a lot of mainstream acceptance of israel. It's only a few days until Christmas and as for all Gazans, things are incredibly desperate for the small population of Christian Gazans. In particular here are some articles talking about fears all Christians in Gaza will be dead soon.

So how about we call up our local churches and ask what they're doing to help the people of Palestine?

The articles I've linked come from a variety of backgrounds. Some predate oct 7th. All focus on the plight of Christians in Palestine. Take your pick for what source you think will speak to your audience.

I want you to find a church that is ignoring the genocide or even praying for israel and then point out it's not just people being murdered. It's their people being murdered. Contact your local church like "Hey I'm Name, I'm not really a member of any church these days but it's Christmas and I really want to do something to help people in Palestine. I was wondering if you have something planned over Christmas? Maybe a prayer meeting or a protest or something idk 🥺" Then if you recieve any pushback switch to "oh but I'm just sooooo worried about our fellow Christians unable to celebrate Christmas".

It's a great place to ease people into caring about genocide who normally wouldn't. And if you convince a priest they might tell their whole congregation about how this christmas they have to show up for persecuted christians in jesus' birthplace. Worth a try?

#free palestine #free gaza #christmas #christians in gaza #i did not fact check the articles i linked i wanna be upfront about that #this is from a place of emotive headlines i assume ppl will barely skim bcus thats how ppl engage with me when i link them things #i skimmed the articles and i straight up dislike some of them!#some of them are from right wing backgrounds so ugh #some make such a point of bashing hamas and its like sure yes hamas have done some bad things too does this really need such focus rn #but i reckon some ppl will have a way easier time with their cognitive dissonance if you gave them that article rather than a more focused #also and this is obvious i am not an expert maybe my idea isnt that good pls school me if im an idiot #im not palestinian #im white and was raised christian and like i read the part where they said being mean was a sin and was like okay why are yall ignoring????#so basically this is coming from my background with christian cognitive dissonance and how what they say and what they do are very at odds #but if you learn to point that out using juuuuuuust the right lingo you can make them do better #they generally genuinely do want to be good they just Do Not See the same things i do #and like my autistic ass cant see what all the other kids at church saw so diversity ig #also heads up if you do this you have to be down to pray like a bunch with nice people on the phone or whatevs #the churches i rang arent having separate prayer meetings but did pray with me on the phone and like my relationship with religion is weird #but it was ~emotional~#anyway they are all already praying for palestine near me so thats something ig #i checked in on a church that kinda scared me out of the faith by being homophobic years ago and theyre already prayin #so like idk everyone in the world really is praying for gaza

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