{"id":1734,"date":"2007-09-15T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T10:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/15\/atheist-charity-the-final-chap\/"},"modified":"2007-09-15T10:52:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T10:52:53","slug":"atheist-charity-the-final-chap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/15\/atheist-charity-the-final-chap\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist Charity: The Final Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/06\/atheist_charity_drive.php\">call for non-religious charities<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/atheist_charity_results.php\">donated $200 to two organizations recommended by readers<\/a>. Having done that, I would be remiss in my duties as a blogger if I didn&#8217;t mention the <i>ne plus ultra<\/i> of atheist charities, the newly launched <a href=\"http:\/\/richarddawkinsfoundation.org\/foundation,ourMission\">Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ten of the eleven missions listed are about the promotion of atheism, making it more like a missionary organization than the Red Cross, but the list does include:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>7. Charitable giving by secularists to humanitarian good causes.<\/b> Major disasters like earthquakes or tornados prompt a desire by decent people of all persuasions to help. Many would-be donors, for various reasons prefer our gifts to go via secular rather than religious charities RDFRS will hope to maintain a list of charities, worldwide, which are not associated with religious institutions or missions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, good on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I posted a call for non-religious charities, and donated $200 to two organizations recommended by readers. Having done that, I would be remiss in my duties as a blogger if I didn&#8217;t mention the ne plus ultra of atheist charities, the newly launched Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Ten of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/15\/atheist-charity-the-final-chap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atheist Charity: The Final Chapter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}