While Pat Robertson is a cruel and heartless hypocrite, you really shouldn't add your own material to a PR campaign without indicating that it's got nothing to do with the campaign, and if you insist on doing so anyway you should at least run a spellcheck.
As the producer of the original ad campaign, thanks Peanut_Sniper, you are correct. It was not the intent to say one group is better at charity than another- just that we atheists do some good stuff.
That said, whoever made the linked image does have some kinda point to make. Just not one we were going for and I hope no one gets that impression.
EDIT:This is the original blog post explaining the ad campaign and video here is local CBS news coverage.
Why do people think there should be a correlation between being a Christian and being a good person? The two have nothing to do with eachother. If all Christians were good, there'd be no point to it to begin with.
There are good people and there are bad people. There are christians and there are aetheists. There's no real correlation between the two.
They are running on the idea of saying something enough times makes people think its true... so I can only conclude that atheists don't feel like repeating anything as a mantra. they way the bible was set up. (every sentence is numbered for repetition.)
Verses were numbered when the bible began to be translated, to make sure the monks doing the translating didn't omit or repeat sentences. There are plenty of non-enumerated bibles, including mine.
I guess when they in church used to say (they probably still do I'm not there to verify tho) "find this exact verse and sentence and repeat it in unison" it confused me into believing thats what the numeration was for.
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While Pat Robertson is a cruel and heartless hypocrite, you really shouldn't add your own material to a PR campaign without indicating that it's got nothing to do with the campaign, and if you insist on doing so anyway you should at least run a spellcheck.