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Atheist group volunteers to work in soup kitchen, executive director says she would resign before letting that happen.

Courtesy of Go Upstate:

A group of Upstate atheists plans to hand out care packages downtown this weekend after the Spartanburg Soup Kitchen wouldn't let them volunteer.

"I told them we wouldn't wear our T-shirts. We wouldn't tell anyone who we are with. We just want to help out," Brannon said. "And they told us that we were not allowed."

According to the Soup Kitchen's website, the organization is dependent upon volunteers, having more than 600 community volunteers with a mission to serve the hungry in Spartanburg.

Lou Landrum, executive director of the Soup Kitchen, told the Herald-Journal she would resign from her job before she let atheists volunteer and be a "disservice to this community."

"This is a ministry to serve God" she said. "We stand on the principles of God. Do they (atheists) think that our guests are so ignorant that they don't know what an atheist is? Why are they targeting us? They don't give any money. I wouldn't want their money."

Brannon said the group has worked with Christian nonprofits, such as Habitat for Humanity, in the past.

"We can all work together to achieve something positive regardless of religion or lack thereof," she said. "We've raised money for March of Dimes, worked with the Generous Garden Project, done community park clean ups, adopted a highway, and sponsored local foster children for Christmas."

She said the group is used to its share of animosity within the community, but the exchange with the Soup Kitchen was unlike anything she had experienced.

"They are the only group that denied us the opportunity to volunteer," Brannon said.

Yep can't have Atheists helping out the poor and destitute, after all they might get infected with critical thinking skills.

I wonder how the media would respond if this were how a Muslim group, or Jewish group, or Christian group were treated?

But of course it wasn't. it was just those lowlife, good for nothing, atheists.

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