Jesus Wept!

[womzilla]

If this is accurate, then this might be an even more offensive act by a supposed Christian than Liddy Dole attempting to slander actual Christian Kay Hagan by calling her an atheist:

As has been reported by a few other gaming blogs and news sites, the Charity Auction at this year's GenCon Indianapolis was held to benefit Gary Gygax's favorite charity, which I will not name here for reasons that will soon become obvious. The fine folks at GenCon raised over $17,000 for this charity, which helps starving children in impovershed areas of the world--only to have that money actually turned down by the charity. The charity refused due to the fact that the money was raised partly by the sales of Dungeons and Dragons materials, which as we all know, puts an irrevocable taint of evil on the filthy lucre that us demon-worshipping gamers might want to use to, say, donate to starving children. Not only is this a slap in the face to every gamer, but it is especially insulting to Mr. Gygax himself, who I understand donated to their cause many times over the years. Plus, I'm sure the children who would have gotten food or clean drinking water with that money would be sort of upset, too.

(--Rich Burlew, Giants in the Playground)

The supposedly Christian charity, the Xian Xildren's Fund, probably wouldn't have wanted anything to do with that dirty fucking hippie who hung out with the tax collectors and whores and drunkards of Judea and Galilee, either.

Rich goes on to recommend the secular charity Plan USA. I don't know anything about them, but right now they look really, really good by comparison just by not being, you know, utter sanctimonious dickwads.

[Edited to correct a couple of spelling errors and change the title.--KJM]

Comments

[missfairchild.livejournal.com]

(Here via Supergee)

That's absolutely shocking (and terrifyingly sanctimonious, of course). I understand that charities need an ethical fundraising policy. My employers, for example, won't take a penny from multi-nationals or corporate partners who cause or exacerbate the sort of problems that we exist to help alleviate. That's just common sense. If those corporations want to salve their consciences after a long day of resource-stripping and exploitation, they can do it without dragging our good name down in the process.

But for that organisation to turn down that sort of money for such farcial reasons? Disgusting. I wish Plan USA - or whoever ends up benefitting - well in spending the donations.

Drawing a line in the sand

[dmsherwood53.livejournal.com]

One has to reciognise (dangerious tho it is) that some people are too far out to engage in rational discourse. Its especially painful as in my case we've got one of the lunatics in our familys (my sister).