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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTime Cover Story Wrongly Attacks Atheists for Not Helping Out Victims of Oklahoma Tornadoes
By Hemant Mehta Leave a Comment
The cover story in this weeks Time magazine, written by Joe Klein, is all about how volunteering and doing service projects may help curb the effects of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on our veterans:
co-founder of volunteer group Team Rubicon] Jake Wood has little tolerance for veterans who see themselves as victims. Posttraumatic stress is, he believes, a condition that can be battled and defeated. If youre out doing disaster relief, Wood says, youre less likely to be thinking about yourself and more likely to be thinking about the people youre helping. Youre also presenting yourself, and other veterans, as a model, as a potential community leader.
Okay. Sounds all well and good. The article goes on to note that doing these projects can help veterans in any number of ways, including providing them with health and psychological benefits greater longevity, reduced depression, and a greater sense of purpose. All of that makes sense.
As part of his reporting, Klein joined one of the disaster relief groups and worked at a site damaged by the Oklahoma tornadoes and thats when he wrote this:
there was an occupying army of relief workers, led by local first responders, exhausted but still humping it a week after the storm, church groups from all over the country funny how you dont see organized groups of secular humanists giving out hot meals and there in the middle of it all, with a purposeful military swagger, were the volunteers from Team Rubicon.
Wow. My jaw dropped while reading that because its absolutely not true.
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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/06/23/time-cover-story-wrongly-attacks-atheists-for-not-helping-out-victims-of-oklahoma-tornadoes/
Klein is a dick.
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Time Cover Story Wrongly Attacks Atheists for Not Helping Out Victims of Oklahoma Tornadoes (Original Post)
n2doc
Jun 2013
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)1. What a gratuitous--and majorly dickish--slam
What's his problem???
Initech
(100,068 posts)2. Bill Maher slammed that article on New Rules on Friday.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)3. Can I get a link?
Initech
(100,068 posts)5. I tried to find a link on YouTube, no luck.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)4. omg
Omg
RudynJack
(1,044 posts)6. Hrm...
I tried to submit a letter to Time, using the link provided in the article, and it won't let me.
Tapping "submit" does nothing. I guess Time doesn't want to hear from us.