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Mike Smith, Addingham based printmaker

Wild Flower Meadow - Upper Wharfedale',

16 colour/hue, 40 x 30cm. reduction linoprint.

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MARY OLIVER

Thirst (2006);

original photos and edit

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disabled people who do not directly "contribute" to society and need large amounts of care and resources to survive deserve not only to survive but to have comfort, stability, and fun within their lives while they do. no compromises.

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Disability benefits shouldn’t be tied to the income of a disabled person’s partner/spouse/parent.

Do you hear me?

DISABILITY BENEFITS SHOULDN’T BE TIED TO THE INCOME OF A DISABLED PERSON’S PARTNER/SPOUSE/PARENT.

This is the straight forward way to deprive a disabled person of their financial freedom and independence and trap them into possible abusive relationships.

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"You know I sit in my own home and I am homesick. That to me is the longing for God. It is the longing to be where I most fully belong and I am conscious of not belonging where I allegedly belong."

-Fr. Walter Wagner, OP, Dominican Life, a Commentary on the Rule of St Augustine

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“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”

— Dorothy Day

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Postcard from Ireland….I kid you not - one from my collection..

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“The church’s social teaching tells everyone that the Christian religion does not have a merely horizontal meaning, or a merely spiritualized meaning that overlooks the wretchedness that surrounds it. It is a looking at God, and from God at one’s neighbour as a brother or sister, and an awareness that “whatever you did to one of these, you did to me.””

— Saint Oscar Romero

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We turn our backs on Christ when we demonize and dehumanize other people made in the image of God, or when we ignore the poor and vulnerable right before us

Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble, "Remember Your Death Lenten Devotional"

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God doesn't need you to fight for Him btw. He needs you to fight for the marginalised and oppressed.

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well first of all we’re supposed to conform ourselves to Christ, not to gender, so jot that down—

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But it often happens in the Christian life that one first of all believes, even if one is not entirely clear about the content of the belief, and then understanding comes later. I think this is true not only of religious belief, but that it is a general epistemological principle. Belief has an exploratory character. Beliefs are like probes which the mind sends out into areas that are still unknown, so that they are like experiments of thought. Sometimes they are unsuccessful, but sometimes they light up whole new areas.

john macquarrie, mary for all christians

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to all artists painting the same thing over and over and to all writers writing the same story over and over

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I’m also going to observe that if someone you’ve been following online turns out to be quietly, non-proselytizingly religious, and isn’t reblogging or posting hate speech, and isn’t advocating for bigoted or prejudiced political positions, and isn’t shilling for genocide, and is more or less “correct” in their progressive takes except for their religious identity, which they post about without trying to convert anyone or shame anyone…

… then your actual problem is with having a religious person in your social circle, period.

grow up!!