Atheists Raise Money For Church

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BEND, Ore. -- To most people, there is nothing humorous about crime, or religious beliefs.
But a group with a name many would find amusing is very serious about helping two churches vandalized in its name.
Word of Sunday night's tagging spread to Pastafarian members with the Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster and atheists across the country.
One of them decided to do something about it - from halfway across the country.
"You know, when I saw this church get vandalized and someone did it, I guess through atheism or Pastafarianism, I just figured the church, even though they are wrong and even though I disagree with their beliefs, they didn't deserve this," atheist Hemant Mehta said Wednesday. "So I think a lot of readers on my site would agree with this, so I asked them if they would consider chipping in."
Hemant Mehta, who goes by "the friendly atheist," created a church cleanup donation fund online from his home in Chicago.
In less than 24 hours, it's already raised nearly $3,000.
His message: This isn't about giving money to a church, it's about righting a wrong.
"This isn't about what they believe and what we believe. No one is advocating this," Mehta said. "I don't know who did this, and I hope that whoever did it is caught. But in the meantime, this is the least that anyone can do to just help this church."
Reactions in the non-theist community have ranged from applause to gasps of dismay.
But local churches say that believers or non-believers, the support from the community has been overwhelming.
"You see people who maybe have very different belief systems, and yet come together and realize we are all human." said Mike Alexander with the Westside Church. "And even in this local community of Bend, in the last several hours raise up and do the same thing."
Christian Life Center already has completed most of the clean-up, and the writing on the wall is nearly gone.
Pastor John Bluebaugh said though they wont have much need for the money, we need to learn a lesson.
"It's a good lesson for us to understand that not everyone that adheres to a faith or a belief system is extreme like that and would do something like this," Bluebaugh said Wednesday.
Deschutes County Sheriff's deputies said the vandals could be charged with criminal mischief and intimidation. Both misdemeanor crimes that come with possible jail time and fines up to $2,500
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For people here who thinks that atheists have an agenda against religion.
 
thats a decent thing to do.

Strangest thing I saw was a documentary on sabc once where a porn film maker directed the XXXchurches tv advert- xxxchurch is an organisation that speaks out against Pornography.
 
boramk said:
For people here who thinks that atheists have an agenda against religion.
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While commendable what these guys are doing, it still does not remove the fact that it was atheists that did the initial vandalising.
 
ufis said:
While commendable what these guys are doing, it still does not remove the fact that it was atheists that did the initial vandalising.
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ufis said:
While commendable what these guys are doing, it still does not remove the fact that it was atheists that did the initial vandalising.
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So? You get Christian idiots as well as atheist idiots, does it matter which religion you belong to (or not)?

If you vandalise a church you deserve the punishment the law will provide, regardless of tour skin colour or faith or whatever.
 
ufis said:
While commendable what these guys are doing, it still does not remove the fact that it was atheists that did the initial vandalising.
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Really? My bet is that it air-breathers did it. Can't trust a breather, I always say.
 
Wow, touchy bunch you are. Shame.
 
Lycanthrope said:
Really? My bet is that it air-breathers did it. Can't trust a breather, I always say.
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Fking air-breathers. They're everywhere!

But ya, it's good when people put differences aside and universally tell extremists, be they atheist or whatever belief system they have, to piss off.

We don't have to accept eachothers beliefs....but we do have to tolerate them. The only thing we don't have to tolerate is people who don't tolerate.
 
ufis said:
While commendable what these guys are doing, it still does not remove the fact that it was atheists that did the initial vandalising.
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Really, thats like blaming all Christians for the withc burnings and crusades.

I think it is more precise to argue vandals, vandalised the property because they have little respect for for the rights of others.

I think it is factually incorrect to argue this is a crime committed by "atheists" in the name of "atheism".
 
How can believers/followers of the FSM be atheist? Atheism requires a lack of belief.
 
WilD_CaT said:
Really, thats like blaming all Christians for the withc burnings and crusades.
I think it is more precise to argue vandals, vandalised the property because they have little respect for for the rights of others.
I think it is factually incorrect to argue this is a crime committed by "atheists" in the name of "atheism".
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How do you figure it it like blaming all christians? Nobody is blaming all atheists for this.
 
Ekstasis said:
Your theory might be correct untill proven otherwise ;)
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It doesn't really make much sense to say someone did something 'in the name of atheism', as atheism just means a lack of belief in god. If atheists act like idiots, they are acting like idiots, because they are idiots who happen to be atheists.

It's different to religion, where people often claim to be acting in accordance to god's will, but there is no sensible parallel that I can see.
 
copacetic said:
It's different to religion, where people often claim to be acting in accordance to god's will, but there is no sensible parallel that I can see.
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That I agree , and most of the time it's for personal gain whether it's financial or just to get attention
 
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