Posted on 03/17/2014 6:02:02 AM PDT by marshmallow
Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, revealed in a recent interview that his family goes to a Catholic church and that religious morality inspires a lot of his charity work. He also shared his personal thoughts on God and the biggest issues facing the world today.
"The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. We've raised our kids in a religious way; they've gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in. I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief," Gates says in an interview with Rolling Stone in the March 27 issue of the magazine.
When asked if he believed in God, he responded, "I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know."
At the same time, he said he agrees with "people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths."
"Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill," he said. "But the mystery and the beauty of the world is overwhelmingly amazing, and there's no scientific explanation of how it came about. To say that it was generated by random numbers, that does seem, you know, sort of an uncharitable view [laughs]."
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Well, part of his fortune was made by patent poaching people without the money to defend their patents through the courts. Every now and then a third party would finance one of the lawsuits and Bill would get a smack down from the courts, but usually they went broke and had to concede the litigation. That happened over and over all through the eighties.
Maybe Bill doesn’t feel right about giving that money to God because of how he got the money and what scripture says about making the amends he has not made.
at best he’s a cafeteria catholic
But since he’s got so much money that could be used for God’s purposes, I’ll say a prayer for him.
Take THAT, angry atheists!
Bill, who wants medical care rationed, must be worried that maybe he could be wrong. So he is puttin’ his chip in for God, just in csse he is wrong.
LOL
It this the same Bill Gates to advocates eugenics and abortion?
He may go to church, but he isn’t be a Catholic.
Bingo. Gates worships Gates.
“The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. We’ve raised our kids in a religious way; they’ve gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in. I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief,” Gates says in an interview with Rolling Stone in the March 27 issue of the magazine.
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Many years ago I was involved in a charity fund raising event w/ Bill Gates SR and Bill Gates JR. I can’t say I ‘know’ either men in the sense of knowing what is in their hearts. I also cannot defend or decry Microsoft. What I can say, through my own observation, is both of the Gate’s men appeared passionate about helping others.
What I took from the passage above is that Melinda Gates is the Catholic and is raising their children as Catholics...and Bill ‘supports’ the decision but doesn’t call himself a Catholic. I also interpreted his comments about faith and science to say that there are mysteries or unknowns that cannot be explained with science. Further Gates believes ‘faith’ or religion is a ‘good’ way to explain the unknowns and he and his wife use faith based teachings to instill the need to help others.
I don’t know, but I believe that Gates did not set up his foundation as a tax dodge...but even if he did, I don’t care. I will never know, but I would think it would be challenging as a mega wealthy person to raise children if those children did not have a strong moral upbringing. I think having faith and following a charitable path is not a BAD thing.
The interview doesn’t mention Jesus or Christ at all.
A Christ-less faith is no faith at all, even for those who are regular church-goers.
Not saying Bill Gates doesn’t have a relationship with the Savior; just saying that this article gives no indication that Bill Gates is a believer.
Absolutely .... Any belief that denies the existence God the Creator ... is Anti-Science ......
... the complexity of these mathematical models of how these things are indeed done are beyond human comprehension. Even though I am a mathematician, I look at this with a marvel of how do these instruction sets not make these mistakes as they build what is us? It's a mystery, it's magic, it's divinity. Then you start to take a look at adult life. Take a look at this little tuft of capillaries. It's just a tiny sub-substructure, microscopic. But basically by the time you're nine months and you're given birth, you have almost 60,000 miles of vessels inside your body. I mean, and only one mile is visible. 59,999 miles that are basically bringing nutrients and taking waste away. The complexity of building that within a single system is, again, beyond any comprehension or any existing mathematics today.
And that instruction set, from the brain to every other part of the body -- look at the complexity of the folding. Where does this intelligence of knowing that a fold can actually hold more information, so as you actually watch the baby's brain grow -- and this is one of the things that we're doing right now. We're actually doing the launch of two new studies of actually scanning babies' brains from the moment they're born. Every six months until they're six years old -- we're going to be doing actually to about 250 children -- watching exactly how the gyri and the sulci of the brains fold to see how this magnificent development actually turns into memories and the marvel that is us.
Yep. I believe in God but I ignore everything He says.
Yep. When he finally takes his last breath, Gates will leave this rock the same way every person has ever left it, penniless and alone. All of his wealth, will be worthless to him, as it was to Steve Jobs. When he finds himself standing in front of The Lord, he will have to account for the use of his wealth during his time here. With all his foundation spending across the world intended to eradicate people instead assisting them, he will get his “come to Jesus” moment in the most literal of terms.
People like this absolutely floor me.
Religion can't be replaced with nationalism or ideology for a child
If they don't want to bring up the children with religion, at least make them spiritual with a sense of morality (but then morality comes from God)...
Wonderful story!!!
Thank you for sharing. I have had some discussions with my sister but I prefer to just set a good example. She cannot understand why I am always so happy and how things seem to work for me. I cannot stress enough the power that prayer has. Prayer gives me such a deep happiness!!
I hope the tide changes for her and so many others that are lost like her.
Wonderful story!!!
Thank you for sharing. I have had some discussions with my sister but I prefer to just set a good example. She cannot understand why I am always so happy and how things seem to work for me. I cannot stress enough the power that prayer has. Prayer gives me such a deep happiness!!
I hope the tide changes for her and so many others that are lost like her.
Like your post!
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“It might be good if we added Bill Gates and his family to our prayers. “ well said
Ah, the arrogance of extreme wealth. Why does anybody care what Bill Gates thinks about God? It’s Gates who needs to care about what God thinks about Bill Gates....
He’s on record calling population control ‘God’s work’.
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