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6:1-4

"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

1 posted on 01/19/2010 9:05:33 AM PST by Between the Lines
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That should read: Matthew 6:1-4


2 posted on 01/19/2010 9:06:39 AM PST by Between the Lines (For their sins of 50 million abortions God gave them over to be an ObamaNation {Romans 1:24-32})
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To: Between the Lines

Won’t work. It’s been proven that the non-religious are much less charitable with their time and money than are the religious.


4 posted on 01/19/2010 9:15:22 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (The whole world are RINOs save for me and thee, and I'm not so sure about thee.)
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To: Between the Lines
Good luck with that...

I can not think of an NGO's that is not is some way "Faith Based". Some have tried to remove the appearance of a faith based organizations, but deep down if the Christians don't support it the funds and workers will dry up.

5 posted on 01/19/2010 9:24:03 AM PST by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: Between the Lines

When bundling supplies, please remember to not form crosses with the binding or the pallets.


6 posted on 01/19/2010 9:24:29 AM PST by cajuncow
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To: Between the Lines

It’s nice that they’re doing something, but it’s a shame that they’re doing it out of political motives rather than because they actually give a damn about the people of Haiti. No matter, their contribution will be dwarfed and forgotten in the wake of the religious charities.


7 posted on 01/19/2010 9:27:38 AM PST by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: Between the Lines
How would an atheist relief worker respond if an injured Haitian asked the atheist to please pray to God for help? “there is no God, there is only life and death and pain, sorry”...?
8 posted on 01/19/2010 9:42:31 AM PST by dps.inspect
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To: Between the Lines
Richard Dawkins LIED

Dawkins has joined 13 other groups to create the Non-Believers Giving Aid. Donors are told that when they give they are "helping to counter the scandalous myth that only the religious care about their fellow-humans."

"[W]e do not hide behind the notion that earthly suffering will be rewarded in a heavenly paradise, nor do we expect a heavenly reward for our generosity

They DO expect a "karmic" reward (in positive publicity for their atheist movement) for their good deed.

This is a marketing gimmick. Give the money and shut up if you are doing it STRICTLY to be nice. You are doing it to show that "atheists give without expecting ANYTHING in return" when you acknowlege it is to "challenge a myth".

9 posted on 01/19/2010 9:54:31 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Al Gore was more concerned with the evil influence of heavy metal than that of radical Imam.)
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To: Between the Lines
Are they going to set up watchkeepers to make sure that none of the money donated goes to voodoo priests who may perform ritual ceremonies on the dead to "prevent" them from becoming zombies?

Head Voodoo Priest Protests Haiti’s Mass Burials, Fear of Zombies (Monday, January 18, 2010)

The head Voodoo priest of Haiti is sickened by the desecration of dead bodies, as they are unceremoniously collected off of the city streets and hurled into mass graves. In a nation where many people practice Voodoo, the supernatural prospect of Zombies rising from the mass graves to prey on the living, is a real fear.

10 posted on 01/19/2010 10:01:52 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Al Gore was more concerned with the evil influence of heavy metal than that of radical Imam.)
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To: Between the Lines
He argues that the New Atheists confuse an epistemic (knowledge) issue with an ontological (foundational existence) one, or in other words, they believe in morality without justifying morality.

The ontological argument for God is the most ridiculous of all theist arguments.

"I perceive God to exist, therefore he does."

Sure; good luck with that.

12 posted on 01/19/2010 1:43:18 PM PST by GunRunner
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To: Between the Lines
What a stupid thing for them to do.
14 posted on 01/19/2010 1:49:36 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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Atheists seem to love to call attention to the fact that they are atheists.


27 posted on 01/20/2010 2:05:18 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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