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A comprehensive study by [[Harvard University]] professor Robert Putnam found that religious people are more charitable than their irreligious counterparts.<ref name="Burke Campbell">Multiple references:
*Burke, Daniel, Religion News Service (May 13, 2009). [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20130310113024/http://www.pewforum.org/Religion-News/Religious-people-make-better-citizens-study-says.aspx "Religious people make better citizens, study says"]. Pew Research Forum. Archived on March 10, 2013 by Internet Archive. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
*Campbell, David and Putnam, Robert (November 14, 2010). [https://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-11-15-column15_ST_N.htm "Religious people are 'better neighbors'"]. USA Today website. Retrieved on July 19, 2014.</ref> ]]
Concerning the issue of '''atheism and charity''', charitable giving by [[atheism|atheists]] and [[agnosticism|agnostics]] in America is significantly less than by theists, according to a study by the [[Barna Group]]:
Religious people are more likely to give to charity, and when they give, they give more money: four times as much. And Arthur Brooks told me that giving goes beyond their own religious organization:
"Actually, the truth is that they're giving to more than their churches," he says. "The religious Americans are more likely to give to every kind of cause and charity, including explicitly non-religious charities."<ref>Stossel, John and Kendall, Kristina [httphttps://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=2682730&page=2 Who Gives and Who Doesn't?] ABC News, November 28, 2006</ref>}}
[[File:Where is the nearest atheist orphanage.png|left|300px|thumbnail|A graphic from the website Answers for Atheist.<ref>[http://answersforatheists.com/ Answers for Atheists]</ref>]]
In 2009, Pew Research Forum reported that a comprehensive study by [[Harvard University]] professor Robert Putnam found that religious people are more charitable than their irreligious counterparts.<ref name="pewforum.org"/><ref name="usatoday.com"/> The study revealed that forty percent of worship service attending Americans volunteer regularly to help the poor and elderly as opposed to 15% of Americans who never attend services.<ref name="pewforum.org"/><ref name="usatoday.com"/> Moreover, religious individuals are more likely than non-religious individuals to volunteer for school and youth programs (36% vs. 15%), a neighborhood or civic group (26% vs. 13%), and for health care (21% vs. 13%).<ref name="pewforum.org"/><ref name="usatoday.com"/>
<ref name="PZ">Myers, P.Z. (June 29, 2010). [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/06/29/the-woman-problem/ "The woman problem"]. Pharyngula [blog].</ref>
According to ''Fortune'' magazine women donate more to charitable causes than men: {{cquote|“Women are very involved in charitable giving,” explained Nancy Heiser, vice president of wealth management at UBS. “The reasons are simple: Women are living longer, making more money and may be inheriting twice—once from their parents and again if they outlive their spouses.”<ref>Research echoes Heiser’s sentiment. According to WPI’s 2010 Women Give study, American households headed by single females give 57% more than those headed by single males.</ref>}}
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The [[Barna Group]] found that even when church-based giving is subtracted from the equation, active-faith adults donated twice as many dollars last year as did atheists and agnostics.<ref name="barna.org">[http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/12-faithspirituality/102-atheists-and-agnostics-take-aim-at-christians Atheists and Agnostics Take Aim at Christians] ''The Barna Update'', 2007.</ref>]]
''See also:'' [[Atheism and love]] and [[Atheism and empathy]] and [[Atheism and narcissism]] and [[Atheism and sadism]] and [[Atheism and mass murder]]
In 2007 the Baptist Press reported:
== American atheist organizations focus on church/state issues - poor largely ignored ==
''See also: '' [[Atheism and racism]] and [[Western atheism and race]] and [[Atheism and love]][[File:Storefront church.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|Storefront churches often provide assistance to local residents. <br /><br />According to the atheist [[Sikivu Hutchinson]], [[atheist organizations]] generally focus on church/state separation and creationism issues and not the concerns the less affluent African-American population faces.<ref name="Hutchinson">Hutchinson, Sikivu (June 16, 2014). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/06/16/blacks-are-even-discriminated-against-by-atheists/ "Atheism has a big race problem that no one’s talking about"]. Washington Post website.</ref> ]]There is a significant amount of [[racism]] within the [[atheist population]] (see: [[Atheism and racism]]). This also holds true for atheists in the [[Western World]] as well (see: [[Western atheism and race]]).
In June 2014, the African-American atheist woman [[Sikivu Hutchinson]] wrote in the ''Washington Post'' that white atheists organizations in the United States generally focus on church/state separation and [[creationism]] issues and not the concerns the less affluent African-American population faces.<ref name="Hutchinson">Hutchinson, Sikivu (June 16, 2014). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/06/16/blacks-are-even-discriminated-against-by-atheists/ "Atheism has a big race problem that no one’s talking about"]. Washington Post website.</ref> Hutchinson also mentioned that church organizations do focus on helping poor African Americans.<ref name="Hutchinson"/>Much of the focus on church/state separation and creationism issues relative to atheist organizations involves initiating and litigating lawsuits (see: [[Atheist lawsuits]]).
== Atheist activist Lee Moore: Donations to atheist organizations are down due to infighting within the atheist movement ==
== Scott Simon of National Public Radio on organized atheism and its small measure of charitable work ==
Scott Simon of [[National Public Radio]] (NPR): "I've covered a lot of wars, famines and tragedies. And it seems to me, truly, every theater of suffering I've ever been to, there is a dauntless nun, priest, clergy or religious person who was working very selflessly and bravely there for the good of human beings. And I don't run into organized groups of atheists who do this."<ref name="npr.org">[httphttps://www.npr.org/2017/05/27/530337283/richard-dawkins-on-terrorism-and-religion Richard Dawkins On Terrorism And Religion]</ref>
[[New Atheism|New atheist]] [[Richard Dawkins]]: "Perhaps there is not enough of them."...<ref name="npr.org"/>
== Western atheists have not done a significant amount of outreach to poor countries ==
''See also:'' [[Western atheism and race]] and [[Global atheism]][[File:Compassion International and Tanzania.jpg|thumbnail|leftright|200px|A photograph of [[Tanzania]]n children taken by a blogger of the Christian relief organization Compassion International.
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Doing overseas evangelism and relief outreaches to third-world countries, often requires significant hardships/persecution and Western atheists have been unwilling to endure such hardships in order to spread atheistic ideology (see: [[Atheism and hedonism]]). ]]
''See also:'' [[Western atheism and race]] and [[Global atheism]]
The atheist population in the [[Western World]] has not had significant outreaches to spread atheism outside the Western World nor have atheist organizations done a significant amount of relief efforts to poor countries.
Doing overseas evangelism/outreaches often requires significant hardships/persecution and Western atheists have been unwilling to endure such hardships in order to spread atheistic ideology (see: [[Atheism and hedonism]]).
Historically, Christians have made great evangelism efforts to reach every people group across the earth. They have also engaged in a lot of Christian relief work to help lessen poverty. In 2005, there were four times as many non-[[Western World]] Christians as there were Western World Christians.<ref>[httphttps://www.wnd.com/?pageId=30077 Is Christianity taking over the planet?]</ref>
The current atheist population mostly resides in East Asia (particularly China) and in secular Europe/Australia among whites.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/23/a-surprising-map-of-where-the-worlds-atheists-live/ A surprising map of where the world’s atheists live], By Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey, ''Washington Post'', May 23, 2013</ref> See: [[Global atheism]]
Since [[World War II]] a majority of the most prominent and vocal defenders of the [[evolution]]ary position which employs methodological naturalism have been [[Atheism|atheists]] and [[agnosticism|agnostics]] (see also: [[Causes of evolutionary belief]]).<ref>
* Dr. Don Batten, [httphttps://creation.com/a-whos-who-of-evolutionists A ''Who’s Who'' of evolutionists] ''Creation'' 20(1):32, December 1997.
* [[Jonathan Sarfati]], Ph.D.,F.M., [http://www.creation.com/content/view/3830 ''Refuting Evolution'', Chapter 1, Facts and Bias]
</ref> [[Charles Darwin]]'s evolutionary book ''The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life'' has been translated into 35 languages.<ref>[http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/valentinedarwin/vanwyhe Darwin in translation]</ref>
What's more, there are several major funders who've put muscle behind religious scholarship on campus, such as the Lilly Endowment and the Templeton Foundation. But we've never seen a gift for related to aethism [sic] - either on a campus or elsewhere. Nor have our data gathering friends the Foundation Center, which reports exactly zero grants related to atheism in a database covers tens of foundations. (That said, some grants have gone to groups that put forth a "secular" agenda.)<ref>[Beyond Belief: As Americans Warm to Atheism, Will Donors Follow?] by Mike Scutari, ''Inside Philanthropy''</ref>}}
== Atheist nonprofit organizations and scandals ==
''See also:'' [[Atheist nonprofit organizations and scandals]] and [[Atheist organizations and financial mismanagement]] In a 2018 YouTube video entitled ''[[David Silverman]] Ousted as President of [[American Atheists]]'', the atheist YouTube channel Utah Outcasts said in a video about David Silverman and atheist organizations: "Many other people were also like maybe he was embezzling funds because we know people in [[Atheist activist|atheist activist]] communities where that kind of sh*t happens. Yes, it was kind of common."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUvX5wTf8TM David Silverman Ousted as President of American Atheists], Utah Atheists, Go to the 3 minute mark in the video</ref>
Two atheist nonprofit scandals which received some publicity were the organizations [[Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science]] and the [[We Are Atheism]] organization.<ref>
*[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/07/24/richard-dawkins-drops-his-lawsuit-against-former-employee/ Richard Dawkins Drops His Lawsuit Against Former Employee]
*[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/09/15/an-update-on-we-are-atheism/ An Update on We Are Atheism] by Hemant Mehta, September 15, 2015</ref>
=== Atheist non-profit nonprofit scandals, lack of critical thinking and lack of due diligence ===
''See also:'' [[Atheism and critical thinking]]
== David Gorski's complaint about atheist nonprofits ==
''See also:'' [[Atheist organizations and financial mismanagement]] [[File:Richard Dawkins photo.jpg|alt=Richard Dawkins|thumbnail|200px|right|The [[Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science]] had a scandal related to an embezzlement allegation.<ref name="patheos.com">[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/07/24/richard-dawkins-drops-his-lawsuit-against-former-employee/ Richard Dawkins Drops His Lawsuit Against Former Employee]</ref><ref name="patheos.com"/><ref name="Richard Dawkins sues Josh Timonen">[http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/10/24/richard-dawkins-sues-josh-timonen/ Richard Dawkins sues Josh Timonen], Posted by David Gorski on October 24, 2010</ref> See: [[Atheist nonprofit organizations and scandals]] ]]
David Gorski at Scienceblogs wrote about atheist/skeptic organizations and financial mismanagement:
The [[Atheist Population|atheist population]] has fallen short of the above-mentioned values (See: [[Atheism and social justice]] and [[Atheist hypocrisy]]).
==See alsoAtheism and individualism ==
*Atheists tend to be more indivualistic than theists<ref>[[Atheism https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2018.1511819 The atheistic factor? Explaining the link between atheistic beliefs and the Problem of Evil]child-rearing values in 30 countries in Europe], Eline Berkers & Inge Sieben (2020)</ref>, which may explain their lower charitability. ==See also==
*[[Atheism and morality]]
*[[Social Darwinism]]
*[[Atheism and the Problem of Evil]]
*[[Atheist hospitals]]
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