renegadebusiness:

angryisokay:

c-a-bergamot:

Deleting all comments because only in this site you will find people throwing shit at a 17 year old boy who has voluntarily fed 80’000 people by starting his own business because he has a very particular idea lf masculinity which happens to threat only people with paper feelings.

His business has a line of ‘SheCans’ with names like ‘Unstoppable’, ‘Awesome’, ‘Fearless’ and ‘Beautiful’.
Anyone who is bitter about this kid’s business needs to step back and reevaluate their life.

^^
Reblogging again because of that comment

also this article is misleading. there is nothing on the site that says the lad was “sick of his sister’s flowery candles” he got the idea from his sister who was selling them for a school fundraiser and wanted more scents that appealed to him, as the overwhelming majority of scented candles are marketed towards women.

I’m always kntting, and this autumn, I’ve been knitting for charity, and sewing knit squares together to make blankets. Here’s me and my partner of seventeen years with blankets two and three at the donation point. I’m on the left, holding the one I dubbed ‘the ugly blanket’, which I knit all the squares for myself from scraps and oddments of yarn I’ve bought or inherited from failed knitters over the years. We’ve got two more with just ends to be woven in before they’re ready to go, bringing our personal household total to five blankets, plus all the plarn my partner’s been making that other people are crocheting into water resistant sleeping mats. Not bad for about a month’s work.

EDIT: I should clarify, the five blankets were not all knit by me, just assembled, with the exception of the Ugly Blanket. That one’s all me.

Why Did God Create Atheists?

rehfan:

naamahdarling:

razairazerci:

religiousragings:

There is a famous story told in Chassidic literature that addresses this very question. The Master teaches the student that God created everything in the world to be appreciated, since everything is here to teach us a lesson.

One clever student asks “What lesson can we learn from atheists? Why did God create them?”

The Master responds “God created atheists to teach us the most important lesson of them all — the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs and act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that god commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his acts are based on an inner sense of morality. And look at the kindness he can bestow upon others simply because he feels it to be right.”

“This means,” the Master continued “that when someone reaches out to you for help, you should never say ‘I pray that God will help you.’ Instead for the moment, you should become an atheist, imagine that there is no God who can help, and say ‘I will help you.’”

ETA source: Tales of Hasidim Vol. 2 by Mar

I started reading this and was worried it would be something attacking atheists, or bashing religion, but this makes me really, really happy.

imagine that there is no God who can help, and say ‘I will help you.’”

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Yes. YES.

This is lovely and precisely the thing I’ve been trying to explain to my family for ages.

This is exactly why as an athiest I perform regular acts of charity, despite being disabled and on a fixed income myself. I don’t have someone telling me I need to for some eternal, ephemeral reward. I do it because it’s the right thing to do. I don’t have a checklist in my head, ticking off credits with a higher power. I think, “Shit, it’s hot this week and the homeless shelter is giving out lots of bottled water. I’ll buy a few cases and drop them off if I can.” Because it’s something I can do to help that I can afford and manage to do at this current time to help others. That’s not an example I pulled out of my arse – right now I have 3 x 24 bottles of water in my car plus four packs of tube ice blocks ready to freeze, plus a whole bag of sanitary products (they were on sale last week) and it’s 41C outside today. I’ll drop them off at the collection point on Monday. We’re able to do this much because my Christian mother saw us regularly buying things for charity, donating items we didn’t need, or chucking a bit of money in people’s fundraisers and thought she, personally, should do more, and offered to go halves. I’m not saying there aren’t uncharitible athiests – there are plenty – but the idea that those of us who don’t believe in a higher power are amoral, heartless, and devoid of any kind of selflessness is just plain wrong.

shychemist:

bi-trans-alliance:

A Christian Group Is Paying For Transgender People’s Surgeries To Atone For The Church’s Discrimination

Transitioning is a varied process that differs from individual to individual, so it doesn’t always involve surgery. But when it does, those surgeries might not be covered by insurance and are often expensive, which is why a Christian group is encouraging church members to donate to help transgender people with surgery costs.

Faithfully LGBT, an organization that seeks to share the stories of LGBTQ people of faith, has started a campaign called the Tithe Trans Campaign to raise money for the transgender community. The campaign takes its name from a practice in which some Christians donate a tenth of their earnings to the church.

Faithfully LGBT is collecting donations to send to the Jim Collins Foundation, a non-profit organization that raises money to provide grants to cover gender affirming surgeries.

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Direct link to the crowdfunding campaign:

Christians Give Your Tithe Towards Trans Surgeries

So far they’ve raised 5% of their goal of $10,000.