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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷2/23/2021 3:21:40 am PST

re: #89 Decatur Deb

It really doesn’t mean anti-religious, but the evangelical atheists are just the most noticeable kind. Everyone in my Army unit knew I was agnostic and it brought me no shit, even though one of my senior raters was the head of Protestant Men of the Chapel.
(One day he showed up on a Habitat site with the PMOC, to be shocked to find me on top of the truck, directing the wall drop—confused the hell out of him, since Habitat is expressly a Christian ministry.)

The same happened to me when I was living (homelessly) in Omaha and would help out with the Metropolitan Community Church’s morning breakfasts.

Jacklyn Glenn once did an experiment where she collected money for a children’s hospital, the video of which she has on YouTube.

The first day she was collecting money on behalf of an atheist group to donate to a children’s hospital, with a friend from a United Methodist church. She got a stream of hate, accusations she was trying to steal money in the name of sick children, &c. There was no “evangelical atheism” (the phrase often used by people when an atheist says they’re one, or questions someone’s beliefs—I never heard of any atheist knocking on doors on Saturday or condemning religious people in the streets for being religious).

The second day they did the same thing except as representing the United Methodist church. Tons of “God bless,” money in the basket, &c.

The end of the experiment showed they collected more money working for the atheist group, as atheists were far more ready to donate to a good cause than Christians.

(This is also reflected in the tips Christians give to waitstaff in restaurants. No atheist ever leaves a tract disguised as money.)