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Charitable Giving – Religious VS Secular
Meaning of Charity
The practice of charity means the voluntary giving of help to those in need, as a humanitarian act.
Secular Charity:
Foundation Beyond Belief is a humanist charity that promotes secular volunteering and responsible charitable giving. Guided by the principles of secular humanism,
The Mission:
- Unite the humanist community in volunteering and charitable efforts
- Advocate for compassionate action throughout the world
- To promote humanist programs: Grants, Disaster Recovery, Service Corps, and Volunteer Network
Christian Charity
Christian Charity a spiritual love. God gives man the power to act as God acts (God is love), man then reflects God’s power in his own human actions towards others.
The Mission:
‘Christian Charities USA: A diverse group of National and international charities that work together to relieve suffering and despair, to ease suffering of people who could use help whether the need is
- Physical
- Mental
- Spiritual
Question: Do religious charities seem more inclusive to helping all humanity regardless of status of belief than Humanists?
A secular criticism often claimed that religious charities just want to convert, yet Humanism seems fine with recruitement into their principles of secular humanism and makes no bones about intentions of tearing the whole place down and starting over to build Utopia.
Question: Is there a difference between convert and recruit?
Obligatory links to other religions and faith based resources. We aren’t doing everything for you. Do your research.
For all the Go Fund Me’s that exist in the world
Concerning the above-mentioned religious faith and charitable giving.
- Religious people are 25% percentage points more likely than secularists to donate money (91% percent to 66 % percent)
- Religious people are 23 points more likely to volunteer time (67% percent to 44 percent).
- The actual practice religion, ritual is more important than belief when predicting charitable behavior.
Question: What is your theory as to why secularists donate less money to charities?
Question: What does this say about secularism?
