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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I don’t have a problem w/ birth control.
Catholicism emphatically has stood against homosexuality for decades. Along with abortion, contraception, same sex marriage, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia.....and the list goes on.
No other church has done that. Many have caved to these modernistic ideas.
Where are you getting this mistaken information?
“No other church has done that.”
That’s an imbecilic statement made by a brainwashed person who’s never darkened the door of an evangelical Baptist church.
Especially when there are better methods of family planning available which will cost them $0, are as effective as the Pill, cannaot be used coercively by the State, have no adverse side effects, and are not morally objectionable to any religious or ethical standards.
As people age they start hedging their bets....Heaven is a sure thing, and if you are a gambling man, it isn’t easy to figure out that 50 years is nothing compared to eternity. Who wants to find out when it’s to late to do anything about it? Gates does well in stock market so he’s a gambler.
You're so right but many people still buy into the humanitarian act.
So Bill Gates is a deist.
We don’t know that their priest isn’t working to catechize the Gateses. He would not do that loudly or publicly. He’d do it quietly, lovingly, patiently. He cannot force his views on them, he can only help to redirect their thinking.
Doesn’t anyone remember how Norma McCorvey was converted from being THE Roe in Roe v Wade to being pro-life? She wasn’t shamed, cajoled, or forced to reconsider. It was a slow, patient process.
All things happen in His time
Cardinal Dolan: Pope Francis opened door to gay civil unions debate
http://ncronline.org/news/politics/cardinal-dolan-pope-francis-opened-door-gay-civil-unions-debate
Pope Francis the fondler is hopping to get the church to
recognize legitimacy of homosexuality with the ol
civil union trick.
“Where are you getting this mistaken information?”
No, the question is why don’t you know these things?
At best. But any excuse is good enough to claim him as an adherent, eh?
He’s got 76 Billion Dollars. If he was as charitable as possible, and still wanted all the money he could possibly spend, he might have held onto a few tens of millions or a few hundreds of millions, but the rest would be out saving lives, not growing in some fund.
Seems to me, anyway.
I was not defending how Bill Gates spends or doesn’t spend his own money....because it’s HIS money.
I was talking about faith and science and how the Gates’ are raising their children.
I believe there are truly evil people in this world. I don’t happen to think Bill Gates Jr is an evil person.
Shrug
EOS
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