Comments on: Atheists, Pastafarians Make News for… Our Generosity?!

By: Phil E. Drifter

Phil E. Drifter — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:40:18 +0000

That’s because all the religitards are giving their donations to the catholic church so the catholic church can relocate pedophile priests to new parishes to keep them protected.

By: Tithing, Charity, and Peter Singer « Skepoet At Crossroads of Critical Thinking and the Humanities.

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:52:03 +0000

[...] which I am not, this would bother me and I’d give a good portion of my tithe to Oxfam or Kiva instead. Indeed, as a secular person, I think we should probably adopt something akin to [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:48:32 +0000

Ooh, just thought of a wicked idea. Someone needs to create Kiva Catholics, Kiva Baptists, etc. and start dividing up the Christian vote. I kinda hate that ours is divided between atheists and pastafarians, but what can you do.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:24:32 +0000

I donated my first $25 a few weeks ago and gave credit to the Atheist team. Kiva is pretty awesome, and atheists kick ass for being moral with no coercion!

By: Notatheist

Notatheist — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:30:01 +0000

I’m not proud of this fact, but in truth, the religious far out give the nonreligious. Study after study confirms it. Part of me thinks that we realize that by voting left we are giving. We’d just prefer that our charity not be contingent upon prostylization or end up lining the pockets or someone who couldn’t possibly use or need it.

By: ckitching

ckitching — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:29 +0000

The author of that piece in USA Today couldn’t help but question our goodwill at the end there.

DO YOU THINK… giving can be faith-free and still have “values?”

Shameful.

By: Jude

Jude — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:05:05 +0000

I didn’t know about the teams, but I joined my total of 25 loans to the atheist team today.

By: ChimaeraLaurie

ChimaeraLaurie — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:36:51 +0000

I was just going to point out what jemand said. If you sort by Total Loaned, Kiva Baha’is has loaned the most with $124,150.00. We will catch up, though! RAmen.

By: jemand

jemand — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:56:08 +0000

that leaderboard has as default “number of loans”

In amount of loans pastafarians are actually second to Bahai, and the UU church is third.

By: Bacopa

Bacopa — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:00:04 +0000

What if Kiva ends up ending world poverty? While I have become convinced that Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is slightly more fiction than fact, I think government aid is largely a scam to enrich corporations within the donor nation and that it focuses on inappropriately sized projects that often disrupt local economies and merely serves to enrich the elites within the receiving nations.

Kiva seems different. It focuses on small scale projects. It perfectly fits Freeman Dyson’s comments about “On Being the Right Size”. Kiva operates on too small a scale to benefit the patron or warlord.