A Food Bank Indirectly Tells People to Stop Praying About Hunger and Give Them Donations Instead

They did a nice job of phrasing that, I think.  Hope it works well.   Food banks everywhere are in great need, which means that those who use them are missing meals. 

One note: to those who give food – please don’t just clean the expired stuff out of your cabinets at home.   If the food’s good enough to give, it’s good enough to eat yourself, and if it isn’t, nobody should be eating it.   My disability income qualifies me for food bank use, but I’ve avoided it since I got food poisoning …

Good for them.  It’s high time someone say it.

Also, I second Trina’s statement.  There’s nothing magnanimous about giving inedible or barely edible food.   

When I was a kid trying to make sense of this prayer thing I deduced that people prayed when normal human action would be ineffectual. Why ask for all powerful help if it wasn’t required and I didn’t see people getting god to pick them up from work when the car broke down. In fact when force into Sunday school when aske d about this they said “of course” althuough they hadn’t actually volunteered that in front of everyone, or made it part of the curriculum. They did actively teach that one should not pray for either harm, nor selfish petty stuff. They also taught that it was like uncertain if a prayer would be granted but that god heard them all. To which my immediate thought was, “Then how do you know”. Which lead to the inevitable Doubting Thomas gambit of stop questioning because it is a sin, and you don’t want to be a bad boy.

I was smarter than that though. I decided they were all deluded. So I went home and repeated the most ludicrous of their claims, proudly as if I was taking it in. Like that if you fly to high to the sun it gets hotter. Or I’d make plain what the implication was and report back to my parents. Like “Jesus is a zombie, Dad, coooool. … And the priest does magic where he can summon a piece of his flesh for us to cannibalize.”. I’d come home, “Hey, mom praying is like gambling.”

Not exact examples as this was 45 years ago.

They pulled me out.

I did notice that many did not figure out when or why prayer should be done. Which is never, of course, but I mean in the context of the false claims being made. Instead they’d pray for petty selfish stuff like Tebow does. What’s more selfish than wasting gods time on winning you a game you obviously don’t deserve to win if you have to pray about it.

Forgive me Tebow if instead you are praying for god to give you opponents an edge so you have a bigger challenge. That certainly would make a nice mock. Some known atheist on a competing team should do that. They should pretend to openly pray in an exaduraded way, like in one of those evangelical churches complete with speaking in tongues, then when asked about it say he was praying for the other team because they were wo unworthy. Works no matter who wins.

Of course every ap

“Excuse me, sir! Can you direct us to the naval base in Alameda? It’s where they keep the nuclear wessels.”

Exactly.  Normally when we donate we go the canned food route.  This entails going to Sam’s club with a Two Wheel cart and stacking it up with the same canned food stuffs we use at home.  Usually vegetables and soup, mostly decided by the *kids*.  If they will eat it, chances are anyone will be able to use it.

Absolutely on the need for cash donations. The Greater Chicago Food Depository sent a rep to my workplace last Oct and showed how  by pooling monetary donations, they are able to go the wholesale route and buy a lot of food.

We were able, through work, to sign up for monthly donations. I guess you could say auto-donations isn’t as good of charity, because I’m not really thinking about it when I do it, but it seems as though it goes farther that way.

Getting further OT, it always bugged the heck out of me that Chekov was unable to say ‘V’, which is an extremely common sound in Russian.  As in, Checkov, and replaced it with ‘W’ which doesn’t exist in Russian.

The same thing goes for clothes: don’t just give away crap.
If I have a pair of jeans that are torn (I’m short and my jeans tend to tear at the bottom), I tend to just throw them away or give them to housing non-profits like Habitat for Humanity, who will then use them as insulation for homes.
As much as I’d love to sell some of my nice old clothes on Ebay, I figure I can make someone’s day by giving it to a thrift store or a homeless shelter.

I like the wording of this.  It doesn’t directly attack religion, which just makes people more defensive.  It does imply it, and can make people think.  Prayer isn’t any different than wishful thinking, after all, and this clearly implies that anything intangible won’t help.

Might never get through to the fundies, but it may push the less crazy to think.

All I can say to this is… amen!

Yeah, it took me a second to figure out what was going on there, too. They could have made that part a little clearer (graphically speaking), but otherwise it’s an excellent poster.

Oh thanks.

If you don’t have this year’s iOS software on it, you can scroll within a text window using two fingers within the text box.  The new iOS seems to have improved it so it is a normal one finger scroll.

Are you starving?
How can you be sure that you’re not because someone prayed for you?

When my Daughter was in elementary school, time and again there were drives to collect food, soap and toiletries, etc. for soldiers or other groups.  Each time, I’d go to the organizer, show my wholesale license, and offer to drop-ship supplies instead of buying items at retail and paying exorbitant shipping and sometimes customs costs.  For example, soldiers in a unit in Iraq were supposedly having trouble getting soap.  I could have shipped them cases of excellent olive oil based soap directly from Greece, but no dice.  These people don’t care about the end result of their charity, they just want the self-congratulation of tossing that random item in the collection box.

This is awsome

You’re kind of an asshole.