We Don't Want Your (Atheist) Money!

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🗓️ 24 August 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

An Oklahoma children's home happily accepted a $100 donation (given by Matt Wilbourne, a Muskogee resident), until it realized that the money was given in the name of the Muskogee Atheist Community. The Murrow Indian Children's Home is managed and funded by the American Baptist Churches Association, and they apparently don't wish to associate with an atheist financial gift. So they attempted to return the gift.

In a strange turn of events, this story has made national news, brought many atheists and Christians together, and propelled a GoFundMe page into the $10,000+ range.

In this short bonus podcast, Seth Andrews speaks with Matt Wilbourne about the gift, the children, the money, and what happens next.

DONATIONS VIA GOFUNDME AT: https://www.gofundme.com/2zc57tpg

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go. The step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Branch ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on 100 fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:44.4	This isn't really even on the podcast roster.
0:46.8	It's not an official podcast per se.
0:49.5	It only runs about 15 minutes,
0:51.3	but it's a conversation I wanted to get out there.
0:54.2	It has to do with a story
0:55.7	originating in my home state of Oklahoma.
0:59.2	Muscogee, Oklahoma specifically.
1:01.7	A guy named Matt Wilborn was donating a hundred bucks
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