Comments on: Irony overload http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/11/20/irony-overload/ Not praying for (or on) you Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:43:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: salient http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/11/20/irony-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-5793 salient Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:55:35 +0000 http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/11/20/irony-overload/#comment-5793 Covenant House is a genuine charitable organization in Toronto (and other Canadian cities?). They do good work, but seem to spend an inordinate percentage of donations on attempting to solicit more funds, though. Having given them one donation, they sent me quarterly begging letters even though I wrote and said that if they continued to waste postage pestering me, I would donate to one of many other worthy charities instead. (I always donate annually rather than monthly) They continued to pester me, and I never sent them any more money even though I did approve of their work. There simply are too many competing charities to give money to guilt-tripping pests who do not read. Statistically, most kids are abused at home by relatives. Egregious though molestation by priests undoubtedly is, the impact of abuse in the home has much more serious impacts. Covenant House is a genuine charitable organization in Toronto (and other Canadian cities?).

They do good work, but seem to spend an inordinate percentage of donations on attempting to solicit more funds, though. Having given them one donation, they sent me quarterly begging letters even though I wrote and said that if they continued to waste postage pestering me, I would donate to one of many other worthy charities instead. (I always donate annually rather than monthly) They continued to pester me, and I never sent them any more money even though I did approve of their work. There simply are too many competing charities to give money to guilt-tripping pests who do not read.

Statistically, most kids are abused at home by relatives. Egregious though molestation by priests undoubtedly is, the impact of abuse in the home has much more serious impacts.

]]> By: Karen http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/11/20/irony-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-5792 Karen Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:21:48 +0000 http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/11/20/irony-overload/#comment-5792 Nuns are rarely pedophiles, and nowadays they do tend to run their charitable operations somewhat independently of the church. I'm a recovered ex-Catholic, and attended Catholic schools through 12th grade. I had and still have a lot of respect for the nuns who taught me. They were very strongly oriented toward doing charitable deeds simply because, to them, those *needed* doing. That's an attitude this atheist can appreciate. Nuns are rarely pedophiles, and nowadays they do tend to run their charitable operations somewhat independently of the church. I’m a recovered ex-Catholic, and attended Catholic schools through 12th grade. I had and still have a lot of respect for the nuns who taught me. They were very strongly oriented toward doing charitable deeds simply because, to them, those *needed* doing. That’s an attitude this atheist can appreciate.

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