RE: how do we as atheists feel about companies using customers to donate money?
June 8, 2015 at 8:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2015 at 8:13 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 8, 2015 at 6:44 pm)Yoplait Wrote: for example i went to taco bell and they said would u like to donate a dollar to "help a local teen graduate highschool" and i hate when businesses do that because apart from all the rumors that very little of that money actually makes it to a charity, i feel like if they want to donate money they shouldn't piggy back on their customers, instead they should donate their own money.
and the thing is i do believe in chairty and i myself donate quite a bit where I can, but when I go out to eat I go for food not to be cheeped out into donating 1$ for a charity that I can't even find a website for. Also it's tough because my parents are from india and my skin is brown so if the people behind me in line see i say no to the donation they will say "oh that cheap indian didn't donate" - so I feel pressured to because my people have a bad enough reputation as it is, aside from all the others who think I am some how linked to al-quida, but have they have no idea that I served in the US military right outside of highschool and how much money i do donate every year.
What is this 'we atheists' thing you mention?
Atheism is a position on a single claim, that at least one god exists.
The only thing that all atheists have in common is our disbelief in the existence of gods.
Anything beyond the disbelief in the existence of gods, is outside the purview of atheism. There are no atheist leaders, dogma or doctrine that 'we atheists' follow.
It is up to individual atheists to decide what the believe or don't believe on other subjects.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
