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Permalink Reply by Hugh Kramer on January 17, 2010 at 1:03pm

Yea! But the group's name is actually Non-Believers Giving Aid. They must have changed it since the first announcement because I've seen it the way you have it in other articles.

Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on January 17, 2010 at 7:07pm

Yea! But the group's name is actually Non-Believers Giving Aid.

Cosmetic. Especially since a lot of atheists that arrive at their position via contemplation and not monkey-see-monkey-do don't like the term "atheist" anyway.

Permalink Reply by Luke on January 17, 2010 at 6:18pm

I suspect that more money is given by our ilk than we are given credit for. I wanted my money to go to real relief not some relief with theist propaganda saying I'm evil attached.

Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on January 17, 2010 at 7:08pm

I suspect that more money is given by our ilk than we are given credit for

Absolutely agreed. The trouble, as with getting a real demographic, is capturing the data. If it were possible to overcome this obstacle, it's really the biggest PR feat we could ever achieve. But it's the "herding cats" problem...

Permalink Reply by Jo Jerome on January 17, 2010 at 8:13pm

As we don't belong to churches and global dioceses, it can be easy to not see what Atheists give, as we're doing so privately.

Permalink Reply by TNT666 on January 18, 2010 at 12:42am

Not too sure what is the value of wasting charitable money on a "middleman" such as paypal, why not donate directly on MSF and RC? Not just our money, but his money, I'd rather see his 10000 go to MSF and RC instead of Paypal. That was a very strange idea he had.

Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on January 18, 2010 at 12:53am

TNT666: Not too sure what is the value of wasting charitable money on a "middleman" such as paypal, why not donate directly on MSF and RC?

Why ? Because white male gazillionaires own PayPal, therefore it MUST BE corrupt ?

It doesn't matter how you donate money - it still has to get handled by feelthy corporate whores. PayPal is as good a method as any to collate large numbers of tiny streams of cash. Probably better.

Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on January 19, 2010 at 3:26am

@TNT666: As widely anticipated by all the naive Peter Pan's and Wendy's out there, those parasitic dirt-bag capitalist bloodsuckers at PayPal have decided to waive fees for any and all donations. Sorry to ruin your corporation bashing party.

Donations made through PayPal to any 501(c)(3) organization that is currently raising money to aid relief in Haiti will not be subject to any fees.