Atheist Richard Dawkins aids Haiti, touts God-free giving – USATODAY.com

Posted: February 9, 2010 in religion
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Donations to faith-based aid groups are soaring and believers get a great deal of just credit for stepping up to help in Haiti. Now unbelievers want the world to know they’re just as caring.

The champion of unbelief Richard Dawkins, Britain’s star atheist scientist, has announced he’ll personally cover the PayPal fees (up to $10,000) for donations to two non-religious relief groups — Doctors without Borders and the Red Cross — through a newly established site called Unbelievers Giving Aid.

The twin goals at the site are are first, to help Haiti, and second to “counter the scandalous myth that only the religious care about their fellow-humans.”

While others debate if it’s God or the devil that caused the quake, the atheists and skeptics here say the natural world is…

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