Comments on: 5/1 National Day of Helping People – NY http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/28/5_1_national_day_of_helping_people_ny A Blog of Atheist Thought Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:33:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rusty Shackleford http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/28/5_1_national_day_of_helping_people_ny/comment-page-1#comment-81760 Rusty Shackleford Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81760 Excellent. I needed to set aside a time to donate anyway, and this will be a good way to remember. Excellent. I needed to set aside a time to donate anyway, and this will be a good way to remember.

]]> By: phreedm http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/28/5_1_national_day_of_helping_people_ny/comment-page-1#comment-81762 phreedm Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81762 <blockquote>It has become an Atheist custom in New York City, and around the nation, to donate blood on the so-called National Day of Prayer, which we have renamed The National Gift-of-Life Day.</blockquote><br /> <br /> This is great!!! So nice of you to support the National Day of Prayer...<br /> <br /> I note that you did not have a "National Gift-of-Life Day" until the National Day of Prayer became so popular...<br /> <br /> <blockquote>?We know that prayer does not work, but medical science does,? says Kenneth Bronstein, president of NYCA.</blockquote><br /> <br /> Tell that to the parents who were praying for a miracle and it was your gift that saved their childs life...<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />

It has become an Atheist custom in New York City, and around the nation, to donate blood on the so-called National Day of Prayer, which we have renamed The National Gift-of-Life Day.

This is great!!! So nice of you to support the National Day of Prayer…

I note that you did not have a “National Gift-of-Life Day” until the National Day of Prayer became so popular…

?We know that prayer does not work, but medical science does,? says Kenneth Bronstein, president of NYCA.

Tell that to the parents who were praying for a miracle and it was your gift that saved their childs life…

]]> By: phreedm http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/28/5_1_national_day_of_helping_people_ny/comment-page-1#comment-81763 phreedm Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81763 <blockquote>I needed to set aside a time to donate anyway, and this will be a good way to remember.</blockquote><br /> <br /> RS...so nice of you to also support the National Day of Prayer...<br /> <br /> You can rename it or call it anything you want...bottom line...it's the catalist that will give so many non-believers the desire to serve... <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />

I needed to set aside a time to donate anyway, and this will be a good way to remember.

RS…so nice of you to also support the National Day of Prayer…

You can rename it or call it anything you want…bottom line…it’s the catalist that will give so many non-believers the desire to serve…

]]> By: Rusty Shackleford http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/28/5_1_national_day_of_helping_people_ny/comment-page-1#comment-81766 Rusty Shackleford Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81766 Poor 4-F... so intellectually challenged...<br /> <br /> I guess if I give blood on Yom Kippur that makes me a Jew...<br /> <br /> <br /> HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Poor 4-F… so intellectually challenged…

I guess if I give blood on Yom Kippur that makes me a Jew…

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

]]> By: alexatheist http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/28/5_1_national_day_of_helping_people_ny/comment-page-1#comment-81767 alexatheist Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81767 I would encourage everyone who gives blood to make it known that you object to the ban on gay men as donors. Even better, donate money to a non profit organisation in lieu of blood.<br /> I would encourage everyone who gives blood to make it known that you object to the ban on gay men as donors. Even better, donate money to a non profit organisation in lieu of blood.

]]> By: quantum_flux http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/28/5_1_national_day_of_helping_people_ny/comment-page-1#comment-81768 quantum_flux Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81768 Freedom says:<br /> <br /> <blockquote> <blockquote> ?We know that prayer does not work, but medical science does,? says Kenneth Bronstein, president of NYCA. </blockquote><br /> <br /> <br /> Tell that to the parents who were praying for a miracle and it was your gift that saved their childs life... </blockquote><br /> <br /> Okay, we will tell them that prayer doesn't do anything, but they should know that already.<br /> <br /> QF's blog: http://irrationaltheorist.blogspot.com/ Freedom says:

?We know that prayer does not work, but medical science does,? says Kenneth Bronstein, president of NYCA.

Tell that to the parents who were praying for a miracle and it was your gift that saved their childs life…

Okay, we will tell them that prayer doesn’t do anything, but they should know that already.

QF’s blog: http://irrationaltheorist.blogspot.com/

]]> By: GodFree&Glad http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/28/5_1_national_day_of_helping_people_ny/comment-page-1#comment-81769 GodFree&Glad Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81769 OT:<br /> <br /> Sunday morning the CBS "Sunday Morning" news 'magazine' featured a piece on xianity being pushed in the military. Jeremy Hall was interviewed.<br /> <br /> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/27/sunday/main4048492.shtml OT:

Sunday morning the CBS “Sunday Morning” news ‘magazine’ featured a piece on xianity being pushed in the military. Jeremy Hall was interviewed.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/27/sunday/main4048492.shtml

]]> By: quantum_flux http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/28/5_1_national_day_of_helping_people_ny/comment-page-1#comment-81771 quantum_flux Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81771 If people were denied recieving blood because they were gay, it would be an outrage. So, I see it also as being an outrage that they can't give blood. <br /> <br /> Although, isn't there a statistic where gays have a much higher rate of HIV than the rest of us, or is that just plane bigotry perpetrated by the fundies!?<br /> <br /> QF's blog: http://irrationaltheorist.blogspot.com/ If people were denied recieving blood because they were gay, it would be an outrage. So, I see it also as being an outrage that they can’t give blood.

Although, isn’t there a statistic where gays have a much higher rate of HIV than the rest of us, or is that just plane bigotry perpetrated by the fundies!?

QF’s blog: http://irrationaltheorist.blogspot.com/

]]> By: alexatheist http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/28/5_1_national_day_of_helping_people_ny/comment-page-1#comment-81773 alexatheist Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81773 Yes gay men in the USA are a higher risk group than straight men but stright black women are also a very high risk group yet they are not denied making donations. This is pure bigotry. The newer and quicker HIV testing combined with triple checking the donations from high risk groups makes the risk of infection statistically zero. Yes gay men in the USA are a higher risk group than straight men but stright black women are also a very high risk group yet they are not denied making donations. This is pure bigotry. The newer and quicker HIV testing combined with triple checking the donations from high risk groups makes the risk of infection statistically zero.

]]> By: what http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/28/5_1_national_day_of_helping_people_ny/comment-page-1#comment-81780 what Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81780 So nice of Phreek to support the pagan celebration of the winter solstice. So nice of Phreek to support the pagan celebration of the winter solstice.

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