One of the Jehovah's witnesses that dropped by the other day said she wanted more people loke Bill Gates. I believe she was hinting that perhaps Bill Gates is a Jehovas witness. Is this correct?
2007-05-02 08:51:13 · 21 answers · asked by HumanWhisperer 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
She probably meant that they want some billionaire members.
2007-05-02 08:56:23 · answer #1 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
He's often considered an atheist, but agnostic might be more accurate.
Consider what he says himself.
"I don't have any evidence of that... Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's alot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
-- Bill Gates, when asked about religion and God's existence in "Time" magazine
and this interview, posted on the Christian website
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Believer's%20Corner/meet_a_few_atheists.htm
Bill Gates
Microsoft Cofounder and CEO, was interviewed November 1995 on PBS by David Frost. Below is the transcript with minor edits.
Frost: Do you believe in the Sermon on the Mount?
Gates: I don't. I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in. There's a lot of merit in the moral aspects of religion. I think it can have a very, very positive impact.
Frost: I sometimes say to people, do you believe there is a god, or do you know there is a god? And, you'd say you don't know?
Gates: 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.
Gates was profiled by Walter Isaacson in a January 13, 1996 TIME MAGAZINE cover story. Here are some excerpts compiled by the Drudge Report:
Isaacson: Isn't there something special, perhaps even divine, about the human soul?
Gates: I don't have any evidence on that.
“Gates face suddenly becomes expressionless,” writes Isaacson, "his squeaky voice turns toneless, and he folds his arms across his belly and vigorously rocks back and forth in a mannerism that has become so mimicked at MICROSOFT that a meeting there can resemble a round table of ecstatic rabbis."
Gates: 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.
2007-05-02 16:05:30 · answer #2 · answered by pingraham@sbcglobal.net 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Atheist.
2007-05-02 15:54:28 · answer #3 · answered by stakekawa 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Atheist.
2007-05-02 15:54:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Microsoft's Bill Gates was raised Congregationalist, though he was married in a Catholic Church ceremony.
He is currently an atheist.
2007-05-02 20:40:49 · answer #5 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, Bill gates is an atheist.
2007-05-02 16:37:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well I don't know his beliefs one way or the other but I would assume if he were a Witness it would be widely known.
So either she was missinformed or she misspoke or you misunderstood. Probably the latter as you said that what she said gave you the idea that perhaps she was hinting that.... see all the qualifiers there.
2007-05-02 19:57:04 · answer #7 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He's an Atheist. He does give a lot of money to charity, that may be what she was referring to.
2007-05-02 15:56:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
news to me. no he is not a Jehovah Witness. we as Jehovah Witnesses worship Jehovah and Jesus Christ.
2007-05-02 15:57:25 · answer #9 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I have no proof but it is widely excepted that he is an atheist.
2007-05-02 15:54:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not even close, he's an atheist
2007-05-02 16:03:19 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋