Here’s an interesting recent event: Atheists collecting for charity by publicly reading from holy texts [1]. College students at Penn State came up with the idea, and in 9 hours they raised over $500 to give to Doctors without Borders [2].
They set up a table with copies of a wide assortment of religious texts. For a donation, a passer-by could have them read any passage they chose. King James? No problem. Koran, Bhagavad Gita? Sure. Scientology, FSM [3]? Why not? It’s for a good cause.
Some potential donors said that, while they approve of Doctors Without Borders, they wouldn’t want to donate though an atheist campaign. A couple of others “flipped them off”. But most were supportive of the idea.
I wonder how well this would work out in the “real world”?
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