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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He and his old man continually support efforts to raise taxes in the state of WA.
Religious morality inspires him to donate to Planned Parenthood and other leftist organizations?
If he had any kind of morality at all he would be donating to help the military who return from war, and he would be standing in front of a Planned Parenthood Clinic praying for an end to abortion.
Keep praying for them. They can come back through your prayers. Remember St. Monica and pray.
I am having the same reaction as you. Gates, that guy who advocates for eugenics? THAT Gate? Yep, I see the hand of God working in him.
He makes me ill.
Interesting. A Pascal's Wager equivocation for what is generally a "yes" or "no" or "maybe" answer. Makes sense, given his background.
None the less, he's on the right path. May his heart open fully.
Bill Gates is a very wealthy man. He can keep it all himself and then have a large portion of it confiscated by the government through taxes, or he can give a lot a way and be seen as charitable. I have no problem with him giving a lot away, except that so much of what he gives away causes more harm than good to our country and our world. Now we find out that he goes to church. I had never heard that before in all the years that Gates has been in the public eyes. That he goes to church is a good thing. Maybe it will draw him closer to God, and he will rethink funding the promotion of things such as the killing of unborn children and the Common Core curriculum. On the other hand, maybe the news of church attendance is out there simply to deflect some criticism off of him. Kind of like how Clinton started carrying around that big black Bible after the Monica scandal. If the latter, it is working, judging by some comments on this board.
Jesus advised His followers to “be innocent as doves but be wise as serpents” for a very good reason. I wouldn’t start giving Gates a pass on things yet until I see some evidence that he truly is a faithful Catholic. Until then, I am going to see his church attendance as little more than a useful prop - just like Bill Clinton’s big black Bible.
“...and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world.”
Inequity and equity mean a bunch of different things.
For example, a conservative could say that communism and Islam are the two greatest causes of inequity in the world, while hypocritically claiming to support equity’s bastard son, equality of outcome.
By creating the DOS and Windows operating systems for computers, Microsoft has done enormous good in indirectly promoting equity. He gave people the tools to improve their own lives, and they did.
However, by embracing internationalism, socialism, and even the foolish Catholic pursuit of equality of outcome, he has done much to harm equity in the world.
To start with, open borders and unlimited immigration may marginally improve the lot of immigrants, but they hurt those left behind, by not changing their lives for the better back home; and they hurt those who are already citizens in the new nation, by taking the wealth the local people could have enjoyed.
Other programs, like direct aid and welfare, are often counterproductive because they inhibit success beyond dependency. If the church wishes to feed the poor, it should do so on its own, not demand that government do it.
One can hope. It would be nice though if their pastor would make an effort to catechize them on the sin of abortion and contraception and their push for population control.
Yah, but he’s pro-abortion, and so is Melinda, his “Catholic” wife. I’ll bet she goes to Communion, too.
Very few Catholic priests, or other preachers, are going to preach things that would cause a multi-billionaire to go elsewhere. Anyway, the priest is probably pro-abortion himself. It’s Seattle, isn’t it?
Link comes back “that video is unavailable in your country. Sorry about that.” What is it? It sounds very interesting.
It links to a 9 minute 37 second youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyljukBE70) video of a TED talk by Alexaner Tsiaras: Conception to Birth - Visualized. It is awesome and stunning, well worth your time to find.
“’It Makes Sense to Believe in God’”
Aw come on Bill, it’s the priests chosen life style you
are in support of, not the word of God, now that the
Catholic Church is the new PC religion. Embrace homosexual
marriage and the liberals will come and give you support.
Just ask Francis the fondler.
Too bad he is such a Progressive/Socialist/Liberal.
Ah, so he believes in a “god” of his imagination. No wonder his foundation is anti-Christian.
“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.”
Even the devil believes in God, Mr. Gates.
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
His foundation works on malaria prevention...among many things.
But I was commenting on faith and science and how believing in one doesn’t deny the existence of the other. How faith can help give children a strong moral compass.
The husband of perhaps the single largest private donor to the Roman Catholic Church (~$450M a year) has African babies’ lives on his hands. Comes a strong reckoning, I believe. Long skinny camel after that needle’s eye...
Bill Gates is not a Catholic and has never been a Catholic. Melinda Gates on the otherhand spits in the face of the Catholic Church with her shameful promotion of homosexual “marriage” and her shameful promotion of baby murder on demand. The phase Cafeteria catholic was coined for anti-God, hypocrites like Melinda Gates. Untold millions of children are dead from all the money Bill and Linda Gates have given to pro-abortion groups, most notably planned deathhood.
The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch predicted her initiative would garner Pfizer additional annual profits of between $15 billion and $26 billion through increased developing-world sales of Depo-Provera.
Kwame Fosu, the Rebecca Project’s (women's health advocates) human-rights lawyer, wrote a report on Depo-Provera published in June 2013, which “tells the story of an egregious and smoldering human tragedy driven by profit at any cost and a ‘population control’ ideological agenda.” Bravo that the Gates' have worked on malaria eradication.It's just to contradictory that they are pharmacologically neutering millions of women around the world and not even telling them the dangers.
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