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发表于 2013-12-19 16:59:24
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The Hollowverse The religions and political views of the influentials.
The religion and political views of Bill Gates
ReligionGates was born into a Protestant Christian church, but is now conclusively an agnostic. We may be able to even consider him a scientist.
Political ViewsGates is very concerned with a variety of social issues including 3rd world development, disease, poverty, and the environment. Three political campaign donation reports were analyzed--all with discrepancies regarding the amount Gates has donated, but two of them say he's given slightly more to Democrats, so we're going with Democrat.
Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington where he still lives and his software giant company, Microsoft, is headquartered.
Growing up, his family attended a Congregationalist church, a now-extinct version of Protestantism.1
Now, Gates doesn’t seem too interested in religion. He doesn’t believe anything without evidence. He was once asked about the human soul, and he replied:
I don’t have any evidence on that.2
This is a standard agnostic view and would seem hard to disprove. Gates, like many agnostics, would rather look to science for answers. In the same interview, Gates said:
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen.3
This doesn’t mean Gates is down on religion or thinks religion is stupid or pointless. He’s said:
There’s a lot of merit in the moral aspects of religion. I think it can have a very very positive impact.4
But he does think it’s kind of a waste of time:
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.5
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