Believe in God or a God? There are a lot of Philantropists that aren't christian such as, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Robert Owen, and Galileo. They have all contributed to our worlds betterment, and these are just a few examples.
2006-10-13 19:33:11 · 7 answers · asked by buttercup 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I ask this because I've had numerous conversations with christians who insist that a "non-believer" can't be, and isn't a true Philantropist. Of which I am always puzzeled by.
2006-10-13 19:35:22 · update #1
I base my "majority" on the people I have met and talked with, so maybe that's an unfair statement.
Bill Gates isn't a Catholic his wife Nancy is.
2006-10-13 19:38:35 · update #2
The majority of Christians think nonChristians are all foolishly selfish immoral jerks. They are brainwashed to think that by the silly book they worship.
2006-10-13 19:41:32 · answer #1 · answered by lenny 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Bill Gates is Catholic.
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2006-10-14 02:36:01 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
"In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don’t know if there’s a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid." [Bill Gates]
2006-10-14 02:38:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pro 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death
Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Pro 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD:
Rom 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Rom 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Act 8:20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain :conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Mar 14:7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
2Cr 5:21 For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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2006-10-14 02:54:08 · answer #4 · answered by revulayshun 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I never heard that. I have also had conversations with Bill Gates personally...better rethink whether or not he is a Christian...he has his faith....
2006-10-14 02:37:31 · answer #5 · answered by chico2149 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What majority of Christians believe that?
Please source your statistics....
2006-10-14 02:35:51 · answer #6 · answered by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have never heard that philanthropy required Christianity or any other religion. Who told you it did?
2006-10-14 02:35:32 · answer #7 · answered by dave 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋