religious attitudes around the world

[Joe Smith]

It's possible that Bill Gates has professed aetheistic beliefs in other 
contexts, but in the Frost interview he comes off as a fence-sitter on 
the issue.  Here he sounds like an agnostic.  Never did like folks who 
can't make up their minds...  :-)

joe

"Gates 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."

Jim Farmelant wrote:


>Well Bill Gates is no longer officially a CEO but
>he is a professed atheist, who has publicly
>admitted as such on several occasions including
>an interview on one of David Frost's shows a few years
>back.
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>Jim F.
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