Comments on: Save thousands of dollars a year with "Your Religion Is False"! http://yrif.org/2009/05/13/save-thousands-of-dollars-a-year-with-your-religion-is-false/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:49:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anon http://yrif.org/2009/05/13/save-thousands-of-dollars-a-year-with-your-religion-is-false/comment-page-1/#comment-9637 Anon Tue, 24 May 2011 10:01:08 +0000 http://yrif.org/?p=339#comment-9637 Just stumbled upon your site and this entry caught my eye. I Just did some quick calculations; it looks like about 12% of our yearly income is spent the way it is as a direct or indirect result of our religious beliefs. Of this, about 80-90% is spent in support of various organizations doing humanitarian work (Invisible Children, Free The Slaves, Heifer International, medical clinics, etc). The other 10-20% (depending on the year) is spent in support of our local church or individuals doing evangelical or missionary work in the U.S. or abroad. So if I were to suddenly agree with you that Christianity is false, I would obviously stop donating to any local church and would withdraw my support for any individual or organization whose work is mainly evangelical. But to read your post, it seems like you are saying that I could also be expected to stop supporting humanitarian causes. My question is, do you believe that there is something inherent in being an atheist that deters people from charitable giving, or do you as an atheist personally believe that charitable giving is either an immoral or wasteful way of spending money? And I guess I would ask the same question regarding big families, private schools and the other things you mentioned; like charity, it doesn't seem like spending money on those things is at all unique to religious people. Thanks! Just stumbled upon your site and this entry caught my eye. I Just did some quick calculations; it looks like about 12% of our yearly income is spent the way it is as a direct or indirect result of our religious beliefs. Of this, about 80-90% is spent in support of various organizations doing humanitarian work (Invisible Children, Free The Slaves, Heifer International, medical clinics, etc). The other 10-20% (depending on the year) is spent in support of our local church or individuals doing evangelical or missionary work in the U.S. or abroad.

So if I were to suddenly agree with you that Christianity is false, I would obviously stop donating to any local church and would withdraw my support for any individual or organization whose work is mainly evangelical. But to read your post, it seems like you are saying that I could also be expected to stop supporting humanitarian causes. My question is, do you believe that there is something inherent in being an atheist that deters people from charitable giving, or do you as an atheist personally believe that charitable giving is either an immoral or wasteful way of spending money?

And I guess I would ask the same question regarding big families, private schools and the other things you mentioned; like charity, it doesn’t seem like spending money on those things is at all unique to religious people.

Thanks!

]]> By: Andrew N.P. http://yrif.org/2009/05/13/save-thousands-of-dollars-a-year-with-your-religion-is-false/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Andrew N.P. Mon, 18 May 2009 00:18:47 +0000 http://yrif.org/?p=339#comment-150 ಠ_ಠ Oh, that? That's just the money you could be saving by switching to atheism. ಠ_ಠ

Oh, that? That’s just the money you could be saving by switching to atheism.

]]> By: elizabeth3hersh http://yrif.org/2009/05/13/save-thousands-of-dollars-a-year-with-your-religion-is-false/comment-page-1/#comment-151 elizabeth3hersh Fri, 15 May 2009 04:10:30 +0000 http://yrif.org/?p=339#comment-151 I'm one of those saps who shelled out 14K annually (times two) for Jewish day school and spent a small fortune on all sorts of kosher trappings. Fortunately, my passion for cosmology turned my way of thinking around and I had a second awakening. Come June, I will be scooping up a small stack of your books to gift to friends and family. "The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance my deride it, but in the end, there it is." Winston Churchill I’m one of those saps who shelled out 14K annually (times two) for Jewish day school and spent a small fortune on all sorts of kosher trappings. Fortunately, my passion for cosmology turned my way of thinking around and I had a second awakening. Come June, I will be scooping up a small stack of your books to gift to friends and family.

“The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance my deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

Winston Churchill

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