Comments on: Why Should You Donate?

By: prakruthi

prakruthi — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:01:08 +0000

I like to donate my eyes because my father can’t see with his two eyes , only one eye is showing him the world . I don’t want other daughter to suffer due to blindness in their parents . I would like to be the light from which they can be happy with their childrens .
I love my dad very much…………….

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:46:32 +0000

Don’t forget your local food bank. I don’t know of a single community food bank (other than those run by churches) that promotes any message other than making sure there’s food on the table for those in need.

Almost always a worthy choice.

By: Skeptical Gifts | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Skeptical Gifts | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:00:52 +0000

[...] Skeptical charities: Both TechSkeptic and The Friendly Atheist have posted lists of non-religious charities, should you choose to remain secular but still be able [...]

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:21:50 +0000

I just donated $5 to Camp Quest Ontario. It’s not much, but i’m a poor university student, so i do what i can. n_n

By: Tao Jones

Tao Jones — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:16:30 +0000

I hope she (shrug) does.

When someone writes like that they are writing for themselves — not for an audience.

By: Epistaxis

Epistaxis — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:27:07 +0000

Dr Futrell is clearly a sophisticated rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity

I hope she doesn’t read these comments.

By: Eliza

Eliza — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:18:45 +0000

In addition to money – or, instead of it, if money is tight – please consider giving time (to causes you support) and/or blood (more lifesaving than prayer).

By: J. J. Ramsey

J. J. Ramsey — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:38:06 +0000

I’m giving a pittance to the SSA, and I also donated to the AHA for their bus sign campaign. Greta Christina isn’t exactly an atheist organization, but I’ve donated to her for the same reasons I’ve donated to the SSA and AHA.

With the Secular Web, I’m skittish about donating because their “‘secret library’ for inquisitive believers” has a lot of historically suspect Jesus-myth stuff, and I don’t want to support pseudohistory if I can help it.

By: Tao Jones

Tao Jones — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:11:31 +0000

What are “human-based ethics?” Are they distinct from chimpanzee-based ethics? I’m sure they just mean the source is not divine. Surely there is a better way of putting it? Secular- or reason-based ethics?

And I really can’t stand the Brights. The only way I’d donate anything to them would be so they could hire a PR person who could revamp the entire organization. Dr Futrell is clearly a sophisticated rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. “Brights”… no wonder. Well, at least that painful paragraph was short.

I don’t mean to be the Grinch who stole secular giving because all these organizations are certainly worthy of our attention.