(March 8, 2018 at 1:41 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: My sister just published a book in which she advises young women on how to make right decisions based on their relationship with god. Of course, nothing in the book is actually useful unless you believe in god.
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How can I criticize christian outreach when I don't know what atheists are doing to help young people, grieving people, hungry people. Religious groups help people by lying to them, but the people do feel like they're being helped. What do we do? Are there groups that give secular help without the religious strings attached to it?
https://foundationbeyondbelief.org/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/2...63925.html
http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Secular_charities
Atheists are very charitable, it is just that we are a minority in America. Less religious Europe and less religious Canada are just as charitable. Our species ability to be compassionate is in our evolution, and that includes atheists. Anyone telling you you are incapable of that because you don't believe, or claiming that a god is what makes you do that is full of shit. You don't need a god to be charitable.
