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It annoys me that some charities will take donors money and use it to spread their religion among people who are in desperate need of essential goods (I don't consider bibles an essential good).

Has anyone heard stories of this happening? Which are the better or worse charities for doing this? Any good secular charities you support?

Red Cross, UNICEF, Red Crescent, World Food Bank, local food banks and charities

Medecins San Frontieres, Oxfam, WWF, Greenpeace, and the zoo get most of our money

WWF

Since when did the Big Show or JBL give out food to the needy?

United Way and food bank.

If they're Evangelical, then that's a pretty good bet. That's about where my knowledge ends.

Since when did the Big Show or JBL give out food to the needy?
I'm not entirely sure if your joking, but just to be clear, WWF is the World Wildlife Federation.

It annoys me that some charities will take donors money and use it to spread their religion among people who are in desperate need of essential goods (I don't consider bibles an essential good).

Has anyone heard stories of this happening? Which are the better or worse charities for doing this? Any good secular charities you support?

I have heard of a brotherhood somewhere in Sahara Africa, who take donations speaking of medical aid and food, and what that only goes to the brotherhood themselves. They distribute bibles to the populace who need food, whilst eating better than they did at home.

The churches that annoy me are the ones that demand 15% of everybodies pay while the pastors live it up in huge houses with expensive cars (see church: destiny)

This is why I only donate to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints and the salvation army... SA because they're annoying at christmas time :P, and LDS cuz I know where the money goes.

I'm not entirely sure if your joking, but just to be clear, WWF is the World Wildlife Federation.

Surely everyone knows that those wrestlers need everything they can get. Food, particularly. ;)

It annoys me that some charities will take donors money and use it to spread their religion among people who are in desperate need of essential goods (I don't consider bibles an essential good).

Has anyone heard stories of this happening?

A large amount of the US aid money is directed towards these "faith-based" charities. It has become a real problem among other NGO's and charities because the people they are trying to assist have become ever more suspicious of the strings attached to the money.

I'm not entirely sure if your joking, but just to be clear, WWF is the World Wildlife Federation.

It's actually the 'World Wide Fund for Nature' - they just didn't bother to change the acronym when they changed their name a few years back.

I still give them money though...

My Church of England school collected money all the time, bought themselves some nice big stained glass windows.

I stay consistant with the Red Cross

I stay consistant with the Red Cross

Red Cross is notoriously crooked, and I don't just mean executives making 300k per year, I mean vast sums disappearing. I stick with Salvation Army, which doesn't hand out bibles in lieu of aid, in any case. :)

Red Cross is notoriously crooked, and I don't just mean executives making 300k per year, I mean vast sums disappearing. I stick with Salvation Army, which doesn't hand out bibles in lieu of aid, in any case. :)

Hmm, never heard that. Sources?

Red Cross is notoriously crooked, and I don't just mean executives making 300k per year, I mean vast sums disappearing. I stick with Salvation Army, which doesn't hand out bibles in lieu of aid, in any case. :) Charity Navigator (www.charitynavigator.org) will tell you executive salaries, but also what they are as a percentage of the budget.

One company (World Vision?) had the top exec making 300k, but that was 0.05% of the expenses (Working on memory here)