{"id":2463,"date":"2012-09-09T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/atheists-doing-good-things.html"},"modified":"2012-09-09T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T12:35:00","slug":"atheists-doing-good-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/atheists-doing-good-things.html","title":{"rendered":"Atheists doing good things"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Over at Friendly Atheist, there are links in order to help raise money for Leukemia and Lymphoma research. \u00a0If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019re sick to death of cancer and every related disease that ravages so many lives around the world. \u00a0One in two men and one in three women will be stricken by this disease. \u00a0I know there are many charities to give to in order to help with this, and there are many foundations set up to aid in finding a cure. \u00a0But I thought since I do give modern atheism quite a bit of grief on this blog, it was only fair to show that atheists are, in the end, human beings. \u00a0And when they lose loved ones to something as horrific as cancer, they weep and mourn just like anyone else. \u00a0And likewise, they can come together proudly as atheists and in the name of atheism and attempt to do a good thing. \u00a0So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2012\/09\/09\/aron-ra-and-zach-moore-ask-you-to-join-a-light-the-night-team\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2019s the link<\/a>. \u00a0Believers are welcome. \u00a0Lend a hand or a dollar if you\u2019ve got one to spare.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Friendly Atheist, there are links in order to help raise money for Leukemia and Lymphoma research. \u00a0If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019re sick to death of cancer and every related disease that ravages so many lives around the world. \u00a0One in two men and one in three women will be stricken by this disease. 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