The Scathing Atheist

We’re proud to announce the return of Vulgarity for Charity! After raising over $25,000 last time around, we’re teaming back up with Tom and Cecil from the Cognitive Dissonance Podcast to raise money for one of our favorite charities in the world, Modest Needs.

What is Vulgarity for Charity?

When you’re a humanitarian at heart, but you’re talents are mostly in insults and profanity, it can be hard to turn that into lemonade. Which is why we started Vulgarity for Charity. The idea is that we’ll trade our insults for your donations.

Just donate $50 or more to Modest Needs before midnight (EST) on November 21st. They’ll email you a receipt. Forward that receipt, along with who you want us to insult., to Vulgarityforcharity@gmail.com (Please include a picture and any pertinent biographical material if it’s not a public figure). Then, listen to The Scathing Atheist and Cognitive Dissonance to hear your insult on the air in the coming weeks.

What is Modest Needs?

Modest Needs is a crowdfunding charity organization that takes the guesswork out of giving by responsibly providing short-term financial assistance to individuals and families in temporary crisis who are ineligible for most types of conventional social assistance but who (like many of us) are living one or two lost paychecks away from the kind of financial catastrophe that can eventually lead to homelessness.

You can find out more about them here.

How does it work?

Just browse Modest Needs’ website and find a cause that appeals to you. Donate to that cause, and forward the receipt to Vulgarityforcharity@gmail.com and be sure to do it quick, because we’ll be doling out the insults on a first come, first serve basis. If you donate $50 or more, we’ll read your insult live on the show. But if you can’t give that much, you can give any amount, and still be entered into a drawing to get your insult on the show.

We’re even inviting in some special guests from the atheist, secular, and skeptical world to help us out, so your insult might wind up in the hands of one of your secular heroes.

Who can you insult?

We can insult anybody. It can be a public figure that you hate, it can be a brother that you love. But remember, if it’s not a public figure, you’ll get the most out of it if we have details. Send us a photo, along with anything you think might help us craft the perfect insult for your target. Do they have terrible body odor? Do they have band with awful music? Let us know so that we can tailor the insult better.

And don’t limit yourself to people. We can make fun of music, places, institutions, phrases that you hate, TV commercials… anything that you want roasted.

Vulgarity for Charity: Doing good never felt so bad…