- Religous people use religion to motivate them to be good people.
- Religous people can't break out of their religous mind sets and so they assume that if a name is given to a group of people it must make them some sort of organisation or a group of people with some sort of belief system in place.
First point, good job with what your doing, if someone in the world can gain some benefit from your effort, then that's great. What I don't like is when religon is used as a reason or a motivation to make that effort, I also don't like how organisations similar to the one your a part of, try and coerce people into converting. You say that is not your goal, but it is an implication just based on your organisations existence, if you were just a group of people who want to help people, then you don't need to do it in the name of God or do it based around your own personal beliefs. I'm a boxer, I go and save some bullied kid and tell him how great boxing is, that fragile kid is being coerced into taking up boxing (I just Hajime No Ippo'd this shit up!) and I just can't believe that your doing it unintentionally, like you said, you'd be happy if they did convert, which means that you already have a biased intention.
Second point, atheism isn't a belief, every atheist is different and they all believe in different things. The reason why you don't see non-religous groups is because non-religous people don't come together to create groups and they also don't have the hidden agenda of converting people to their non-existent belief. If an atheist is going to help out, then they are going to be just a bunch of random people going on these charitable exhibitions, they don't have group names, they just have themselves and the charitable group that they just happen to affiliate themselves with or create on their own.
A few examples of aid organisations would be the Afghanistan Relief Organisation, Actions Against Hunger and Random Hacks of Kindness. I've also been a part of the Fred Hollows Foundation and I've raised thousands of dollars for the charity, I helped in my own way, I didn't join a group to do it and I see similar things being done by non-religous people all the time. People without a religon don't stick to specific groups, there is no reason to create the 'Atheist of American Health Relief' organisation.
Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.







