Faith groups provide the bulk of disaster recovery, in coordination with FEMA

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Over and over again in public comments as Hurricane Harvey was soaking Texas and Louisiana, FEMA administrator Brock Long asked concerned citizens to go to NVOAD.org to make donations – that is National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, the alliance of volunteer organizations that are helping FEMA channel disaster assistance into the affected areas. About 75% of the organizations that are part of the alliance are faith-based.

To read more:

http://religionnews.com/2017/09/11/faith-groups-provide-the-bulk-of-disaster-recovery-in-coordination-with-fema/

That is, of course, good news, but given that approximately 85% of US citizens identify as religious, it stands to reason that most of the volunteers and donors are religious.

[AtheistCrusader]

1. For now.

[trotsky]

2. Atheists don't need to promote themselves while helping.

They follow Jesus better than most Christians do, apparently. Matthew 6:1-4

[Lordquinton]

3. Religionnews.com

Yea, sure, totally.

[MineralMan]

4. So, 85% of US citizens are religious, but only 75%

of charitable organizations on that list are? The math doesn't exactly work out, now, does it?

BTW, religionnews.com is not a news website. It's an advocacy website full of opinion pieces. Maybe you're confused about the word news in the URL. I don't know.