Years ago, in the pre-cell phone 80s, at a trade show in Las Vegas, someone left their wallet in our booth. It had money in it, but I didn't touch it.

I took it back to my room, and pulled out the Drivers License, from Nebraska. I called the phone operator and asked to be connected to the area code for that city. That operator gave me the only phone number in that city with that last name, but a woman's first name. I called that number, and it turned out to be the wallet owner's mother.

I told her I had her son's wallet, so she should call his hotel room, and tell him he could pick it up at our booth, and gave her my hotel room phone number. He called, obviously hugely relieved that his wallet was safe, and told me to take $50 out of it and go out, but I didn't.

The next day, he came in to retrieve his wallet, and asked if I spent the $50 having fun, and I told him I didn't want a reward. He opened the wallet, threw $50 on the counter, and ran out of the booth.

I gambled it on slots, and won a couple hundred, which I proceeded to gamble away to nothing.

Thank God for this gift

I don't believe in any god at all and I would still pick it up and try to return it. We don't need a supernatural being telling us what's right and wrong. It's innate inside all of us as social beings.

You always return the wallet. This is not a Christian thing, this is just a human thing. But here's the pros and cons.

Number one scenario: it belongs to an insanely rich person. If you keep this wallet they will barely miss that money because they have plenty, however the police will work very hard to find you and then they will beat the ever living shit out of you and you will be sent to jail for stealing from an oligarch.

Scenario two: it belongs to somebody for whom this is their entire life savings and without it they will become destitute. You will face no repercussions for keeping the wallet and the money because they have no power. But you will have completely destroyed someone else's life which makes you a vile disgusting POS.

Scenario three: it belongs to a drug dealer. And eventually that drug dealer will find you and murder your entire family because you stole from some cartel somewhere. Because the war on drugs has made drug cartels insanely powerful and contemptuous of the ruke of law.

how much you wanna bet those are those fake $100 bills with bible quotes on the back admonishing you for being greedy?

That is absolutely bait. Nothing good can come from getting anywhere near it.

Thank you for this bountiful reward Jesus.

Sin

As a child of satan I give it to charityXD

If I am hypothetically a child of a god, then shouldn't I have cool abilities and not need the money of mere mortals? I don't feel very god-like right now. Just sayin'.

A child of God is supposed to find the rich fuck of an owner (probably a criminal because who else has this much cash with them) and give it back. However, I'm not a child of an imaginary sadistic friend so I would take it, give the money to the homeless shelter behind my house and the animal shelter nearby, and bring the rest of the wallet to the police so they can deal with it.

I genuinely think I might just leave it there. Looks too suspicious. That is no ordinary person's money.

Pick it up.

I once found like 200$ in 20$ bills on the ground in a park near my home.

I live in Hochelaga, Montréal. It is the neighborhood with the most homeless encampments in all of Québec.

There just so happened to be a bus across the street that serves hot food and gives clothes to the homeless from the "Dans la rue" non profit organization.

I walked up to the bus and asked if they took donations. They said yes. So I gave them the money.

If I ever win the big prize at the lottery, I'm going to help anyone I can in my neighborhood and my city to find shelter, food and clothes and allow them to be independent so they can get their life back on track.

And I also want to open a grocery co-op in my neighborhood and expand across the province to compete with the price gouging grocery chains in Canada that are responsible for food insecurity and inflation.

If ID, back to owner. If no ID, finders keepers.

Since God doesn't exist the real question is "As a child of your parents, what's your next move?" And answer to that question tells a lot about the person.

Kill myself, because AI has begun generating things IRL

Buy 1GB of Ram

I'd try to return it to the owner, which will allow me to forget the whole situation eventually.

If I kept it, I would never forget that I did that. For some reason, things like that stick around in my brain for decades.

I've lived my entire life so far without that person's money, so I'll continue to be fine without it.

This much money, I would try my best to find the owner and return. I'm a total antireligionist and atheist and the guilt would eat me alive.

Wym? He clearly put this in my path 🙏

Fuck the wallet while saying a prayer?

Imma thank god for sending me the blessing I've been praying for and pick that shit up

Do those things that Christians would never do. You know - help the poor and immigrants.

Check for an ID. If there is one, bring it to the address listed. Mail it if it’s not local. If there isn’t one, bring it to the local police station.

And for the record, I’m an atheist.