Bill Gates, the inventor of Windows, denies god.
He endorses not wasting your time with prayer or worship.
He even works on Sunday!
Everytime you boot up your Windows equipped computer, you are supporting a man whose ideology blatently contradicts your own. You wouldn't knowingly support a person who lies, steals and murders, yet you support a man who flaunts your god's commandments - just so you can use your computer.
How do you explain this hypocricy?
(unless you're using an Apple - whoops, almost forgot, that was co-invented by Steve Wozniak, another atheist!)
2006-11-11 10:10:14 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Note: I said KNOWINGLY support. Obviously we all support bad people who contribute to society, but we are usually ignorant of their badness.
Gates has made it a point of telling the world he doesn't believe, therefore all you believes should eschew him, and his technology. If you don't you are hypocrites, plain and simple.
2006-11-11 10:16:19 · update #1
Everyone sins. Including the people who grow our food, sell us food, and sell us our houses and I'm pretty sure a majority of those people are atheist. It would be ridiculous to deny things because another person denies God.
2006-11-11 10:13:43 · answer #1 · answered by culture_killer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you suggest we simply not use computers? Should we leave this technology only for the non-believers? Seems to me that God must have had a hand in it somewhere because it also seems to be doing good things regardless of what the inventor chooses to be. Read your Bible. There is nothing man can come up with that hasn't been before. Keeping this in mind I'd say God was actually the inventor after all. You always wonder how He keeps up with all of us? It would be nice to see what His great computer can store.
2006-11-11 10:20:10 · answer #2 · answered by rose v 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure there are atheist who invented a great deal of things. Even in his not owning God, it doesn't mean that God want us to over look uses of technology. What does one thing have to do with another. God knows we will use these things, but what's more important is HOW we'll use these things. Will they be used for God or for evil. I don't see how I'm being a hypocrite, by using modern technology. That just doesn't make sense. As long as I'm living my life pleasing in the sight of God, that's all that matters.
2006-11-11 10:27:02 · answer #3 · answered by Gail R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If Christians were to boycott all things that had a connection with non-believers, that would be everything. Even "christian" things were made my sinful men. Everyone is sinful. It's our nature.
Why do non-believers take the Lord's name in vain if they do not believe there is a God?
I'm sure you live a life with no hypocricy, right?
2006-11-11 10:17:43 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This was a pretty dumb question, what if an athiest invented fire, does that make it wrong to use it. You bend things to fit your own meanings. If he is indeed an athiest, then thats on him, and he will have to pay the concequences, but I'm most certaintly not going to stop using my windows based computer. Me using my computer has nothing to with his religious beliefs. There's nothing in the bible to back up your postulate, but nice try...
2006-11-11 10:21:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a Christian and even I think this question is stupid.
What's hypocritical to me is when an Atheist tries to push their non-belief on others in an attempt to unconvert people...along with that all you guys do is judge people and insult them for believing a certain way...sounds familiar right?
2006-11-11 10:29:05 · answer #6 · answered by James P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We trust God to deal with him.We also believe all thing emanate from God.The uses they are put to are the convention of man.
And yes pain,suffering and death are from God.This is not Eden but a curse unto death.It would be of little use if all things were peachy.
2006-11-11 10:21:11 · answer #7 · answered by Tommy G. 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has their own God; for Bill Gates, apparently "work" is his god.
Wouldn't NOT supporting someone who has a different god than you be persecution?
2006-11-11 10:14:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Using the invention of an Atheist is hypocrisy.. That is reaching to find error.. It's stupid... Jim
2006-11-11 10:20:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can't believe someone could be ignorant and Proud.
Man is human, Man Sins, although with the blood of JESUS CHRIST and his death on the cross man can repent and be forgiven!!!!
2006-11-11 10:17:14 · answer #10 · answered by Breann 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋