Thread: This is why you need to be nice to people.

Speaking of reddit and recent acts of kindness, over the weekend, /r/atheism led a pledge drive and managed to donate over $150,000 to Doctors without Borders.

Was there actual confirmation from DwB that donations were received, or is it just going on peoples word atm?

Kids will always be horrible to other kids. Many times, the kids don't deserve it and it's pretty terrible that such awesome kids end up psychologically scarred from abuse from their peers for being eccentric.

Progressive Christian blogger John Shore had a moving piece on this video:

Evangelical, fundamentalist Christians—by which I mean, specifically, Christians who believe that being gay is a moral abomination, an appalling affront to God—talk to me, please, about this kid.

Tell me that your belief system didn’t help put the hot tears on this kid’s cheeks. Tell me that the bullies who torment this kid aren’t in any way encouraged or empowered by your tacit approval of their actions. Tell me that the shame this kid feels about himself has nothing to do with the shame that you believe all gay people should feel for themselves.

Tell me that you can’t comprehend the connection between your conviction that God finds homosexuals repulsive, and the fact that this kid finds himself so repulsive that he habitually cuts his own flesh.

Tell me, please, how you love this kid. Tell me how you understand his pain. Tell me how when he cries, you cry.

Tell me how you want to do everything in your power to make sure that no one, ever again, feels free to in any way victimize a young gay person.

A Christian myself, I am pleading with you to be honest with me about this.

Tell me, please, how none of this kid’s anguish has anything to do with you.

I’m listening. I really am.

We all are.

Here's a link.

Originally Posted by CLJ

Was there actual confirmation from DwB that donations were received, or is it just going on peoples word atm?

reddit.com/r/Atheism's Fundraising Page