Kiva Atheists Have Raised More Than Any Other Group

Kiva is a charitable organization that lets people give small loans to entrepreneurs around the world. As of October 4, 2009, Kiva has distributed $95,136,910 in loans from 568,810 lenders. A total of 135,613 loans have been funded. The average loan size is $406.45. Its current repayment rate is 98.42% [Wikipedia]. As of today, the largest community on Kiva is the Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious group which has raised, as of today, a total of $1,168,650.00. The next largest group is the Kiva Christians, which have raised $727,000. I’m not trying to spark a competition, but I’d like to make a point. Morality, charity, and compassion are not attributes that the religious community, or any community for that matter, can monopolize. The Atheist group gives, in their own words, because “we care about the suffering of human beings”.

I would encourage all of our readers to do what they can, not because of any desire to be competetive and to beat out the Christian group (though I won’t deny that was one of my motivations for joining), but to show people that people can still be good, moral people without living in fear of eternal punishment and hellfire. I know I don’t.

P.S. I’m sorry I was gone for so long. School stuff got a bit busy. I’ll be posting more often in the coming days and weeks.