Crowdfunding Hate in the Name of Christ

[Nevilledog]

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Talia Bracha Lavin
@chick_in_kiev
A darkly funny insight into the evangelical mindset today:
1. A few months ago, I interviewed Heather Wilson & Jacob Wells, founders of GiveSendGo dot com, a Christian fundraising site - and also the primo $ site for the far right. (Think Proud Boys & J6)

Crowdfunding Hate in the Name of Christ
Right-wing extremists have found a safe haven on GiveSendGo, the “#1 Free Christian Crowdfunding Site.”
thenation.com
2:10 PM · Sep 15, 2021

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/givesendgo-crowdfunding-extremism/

When I ask Heather Wilson and Jacob Wells, the founders of GiveSendGo, the “#1 Free Christian Crowdfunding Site,” whether they would host a fundraising campaign for the Ku Klux Klan, the call goes dead for a few seconds.

“Some of these campaigns are situational,” Wells finally offered.

“It would depend on what they were raising money for,” Wilson said.

The pair are siblings in their 40s, just two in a family of 12 children who grew up in Salem, N.H. Along with their sister Emmalie, they founded GiveSendGo in 2014 because, as a 2017 blog post put it, “Gofundme has taken a stance against Christians and has been taking down campaigns that they did not agree with.” The idea, Wells said, was not just to run a profitable business but to create a community where both givers and receivers could be inspired by the hope of Jesus. On the site’s clean, spare interface, the “Share Now” button is supplemented with a “Pray Now” button, allowing users to offer their devotions with a click.

On GiveSendGo, where “the most valuable currency is God’s love,” Kyle Rittenhouse, the alleged murderer of two Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wis., netted almost $600,000 to pay his legal fees. A few months later, a page for Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio raised more than $113,000 after his arrest en route to Washington, D.C., with high-capacity magazines two days before the Capitol riot.

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[Hugin]

1. I'll bet its a tax dodge for them, too.

Religious sight cite site and all of that malarkey.

[keithbvadu2]

2. CBR - Cash Based Religion

"was not just to run a profitable business but to..."

Making a business to make bucks off his supporters.