AS303: Doing Charity Better, with Foundation Beyond Belief
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Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2016
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Joining me for today is Noelle George, Executive Director of Foundation Beyond Belief! Since the holidays have rolled around again and you’ve likely started to hear the annoying, holier than thou jangle of constant Salvation Army bells outside of every grocery store and mall, I thought it might be a good idea to talk with someone … Continue reading AS303: Doing Charity Better, with Foundation Beyond Belief
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode 303 and I'm your host Thomas Smith. |
| 0:36.0 | All right today I've got a great show for you. |
| 0:40.0 | Seeing as how it's the holidays I I actually thought about, I wanted to do a show related to giving to charity |
| 0:46.8 | because as you all well know that's something that typically, I don't, |
| 0:52.1 | religious people get a lot of credit for, churches get their tax |
| 0:55.3 | exempt because supposedly they're doing charitable work and maybe sometimes they are, or maybe |
| 1:00.9 | most of the time, who knows. Either way, I think it couldn't hurt to learn more |
| 1:05.1 | about giving to charity and how to do it as an atheist or even if not an atheist, someone |
| 1:11.2 | who doesn't want any strings attached, someone who doesn't want |
| 1:14.9 | any proselytizing, someone who wants the money to go to the right place, regardless of whether |
| 1:21.4 | it's a religious charity or a secular one, |
| 1:24.4 | someone who wants the money to be used on the people who actually need it |
| 1:28.8 | and not on the people managing the charity or |
| 1:32.1 | some sort of middle men or women middle people |
| 1:35.8 | might be getting a cut of funding that you would hope would be going to the right people who need it. |
| 1:43.3 | I don't want to do any sort of show on atheists giving to charity without acknowledging |
| 1:48.4 | just how amazing it was that, you know, listeners of scathing atheists and cognitive dissonance and I think a lot of my |
| 1:55.3 | listeners as well gave to the Vulgarity for charity campaign this this year just |
| 2:01.8 | to just what a month ago so much money was put into the hands of people |
| 2:06.0 | that really needed it and I was really proud to be any small part of that and I |
| 2:10.0 | just want to say I know Noah over at scathingaithing Atheist did a diatribe about this |
| 2:14.7 | somewhat recently just how amazing it was all the the generosity of my |
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