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TA - Bill Gates an Agnostic Atheist
« on: May 21, 2013, 06:16:45 PM »
Billy Gates doesn't know if there is a God. A true Atheist claims there is no God with conviction.

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.


The artificer here is the term agnostic. Agnosticism is not a position on belief, it is a position on knowledge. The prefix A means without and Gnostic refers to knowledge, hence agnostics do not claim to have knowledge of the existence of any gods. Belief is a binary position, either on believes in some proposition or one does not, there is no middle ground (no one can half-believe something). Given his comments Bill Gates appears most likely to be an agnostic atheist, that is a person who does not believe in any gods but does not claim to know that they don't exist.

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Re: TA - Bill Gates an Agnostic Atheist
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2013, 06:19:30 PM »
Billy Gates doesn't know if there is a God. A true Atheist claims there is no God with conviction.

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.


The artificer here is the term agnostic. Agnosticism is not a position on belief, it is a position on knowledge. The prefix A means without and Gnostic refers to knowledge, hence agnostics do not claim to have knowledge of the existence of any gods. Belief is a binary position, either on believes in some proposition or one does not, there is no middle ground (no one can half-believe something). Given his comments Bill Gates appears most likely to be an agnostic atheist, that is a person who does not believe in any gods but does not claim to know that they don't exist.
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Everyone is atheist is an "agnostic" atheist.  That is, if there is evidence to support something, then that is what you go with.

Gates is as atheist as you get.

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Re: TA - Bill Gates an Agnostic Atheist
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2013, 06:22:18 PM »
Gates was profiled in a January 13, 1996 TIME magazine cover story. Here are some excerpts compiled by the Drudge Report:
"Isn't there something special, perhaps even divine, about the human soul?" interviewer Walter Isaacson asks Gates "His 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."
"I don't have any evidence on that," answers Gates. "I don't have any evidence of that."
He later states, "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."

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Re: TA - Bill Gates an Agnostic Atheist
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2013, 06:45:33 PM »
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After giving away most of his wealth to charity Bill Gates is back at the number 1 spot as the world's "wealthiest" man.

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/468764/20130519/bill-gates-richest-man-bloomberg-carlos-slim.htm#.UZwiXLVJNuo

This guy is amazing. He IS God... but will die before he hits 150 years. That's a short life for a "GOD" whose Universe is a few billions years old.
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Re: TA - Bill Gates an Agnostic Atheist
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2013, 06:57:56 PM »
http://www.icke-exposed.co.uk/united-states/bill-gates-has-to-be-the-biggest-fraud-of-all/

Even though this website is usually highly critical of David Icke; A tall man who tells tall stories, occasionally David Icke is absolutely correct in what he says. A good example, would be David Icke’s take on Bill Gates. Bill Gates tries to portray himself as the ultimate philanthropist. To fully appreciate the true improbability of Bill Gates as the very personification of the philanthropic spirit, we must first take a brief look at Bill Gates’ business modus operandi of the last fifteen years:

Bill Gates fought a lengthy and expensive battle with the US government over the anti trust case, which was basically Microsoft using anti competitive tactics to favour its browser and software over that of its rivals. How believable is it really, that a nasty, greedy little nurd like Bill Gates, who so aggressively fought the US congress at great cost over this issue of browser/software monopoly, would suddenly morph into this almost dove-like, Florence Nightingale  figure, championing the the lives and general welfare of poor, economically disadvantaged Africans??? I mean come on—Bill Gates is about as much a philanthropist, as the Moon is a spaceship full of aliens controlling human consciousness on Planet Earth…

Bill Gates is one of the wealthiest human beings on Planet Earth. He acquired this enormous wealth, by selling huge quantities of sub-standard, defective software at extortionate prices to gullible fools who are essentially computer illiterate. Now, because Bill Gates is an extremely greedy, rapacious individual, he would baulk at the thought of paying appropriate tax on his vast personal fortune, despite his claims on TV, that rich people should pay more tax. So to avoid paying tax, he needs a cunning plan—Enter the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation:

This ‘charitable’ foundation, pays no tax whatsoever to the IRS, because being a ‘charitable’ organisation, it’s tax exempt. This means that despite the fact that the foundation has assets in excess of $37,000,000,000, it only has to spend $1,500,000,000 annually on charitable causes to retain its charitable status. Now, how much tax do you think Bill Gates, Warren Buffet (another predatory capitalist turned ‘philanthropist’), would pay on $37,000,000,000 if it was not tax exempt? Obviously, it would be considerably more than the relatively paltry $1,500,000,000 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ‘gives’ to charity.