Just been told I bear the mark of Satan...

[davidgillon]

Someone wrote a really good piece for a Conservative Christian forum explaining why disabled people find the election result threatening and appealing for the readers to look at the situation from our viewpoint and with Christian understanding. The replies were appalling, some of the worst self-righteous disablism I've ever seen (one of the reasons I was really depressed early in the week). Several disability activitists, including me, replied to some of the worst of them. After several exchanges one of  them has just told me "The image of God that man was created in has been distorted by the evil one since the Fall and that is why people have disabilities. The gospel is explicit about that."

Headdesk.

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[syntaxofthings]

what in the.

I am impressed you are trying to engage.

[davidgillon]

I figure that there's probably not much hope for the people who are being aggressive, but if I reply with the actual facts of what is being cut there may be many more people who read it but don't respond, and may actually think about the morality and the impact.

And to be honest they pushed me into angry replying and I've segued into obsessive replying, which isn't entirely good for me, but I may as well try and get some good out of it.