Meet A Few Rich Atheists!
“...the
God in whose hand THY BREATH IS, and whose are all thy ways, HAST
THOU NOT GLORIFIED”
(Daniel 5:23).
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.
George Soros
The multi-billionaire, financier and
philanthropist was profiled on the newsmagazine 60
Minutes, broadcast December 20, 1998.
Steve Kroft
:
Are you a religious man?
Soros: No
Kroft: Do you believe in God?
Soros: No
Warren Buffett
The multi-billionaire, financier, atheist and
business man. The following is taken from--Buffett: The
Making of an American Capitalist, by Roger Lowenstein (Doubleday,
1995), page 13...
"He did not subscribe to his
family's religion. Even at a young age he was too mathematical, too logical,
to make the leap of faith.”
“He adopted his father's ethical
underpinnings, but not his belief in an unseen divinity.”
Larry
Flynt
Publisher of more than a dozen adult magazines,
including Hustler, his life is profiled in a 1997 film directed by Milos
Forman titled, The People vs. Larry Flynt.
In the epilogue of his autobiography,
An
Unseemly Man, Flynt says:
"I have left my religious conversion behind and settled into a
comfortable state of atheism.”
Flynt recanted his earlier claim of having becomes a Christian
and dismissed it as the result of a manic-depressive episode.
In 1984, Larry Flynt sought out the services of
Madalyn Murray O'Hair (a
God-hating feminist wretch) and announced in his magazine,
Hustler,
that he was an atheist.
Judgment Day is Coming!
You
have just heard from four of the richest men in the world.
It is
tragic and sad when men deny their Divine Creator, the very One Who keeps them breathing
(Acts 17:25). The prophet Daniel
would say to these men the same thing he said to king Belshazzar, “...the
God in whose hand THY BREATH IS, and whose are all thy ways, HAST
THOU NOT GLORIFIED”
(Daniel 5:23).
We read again in Romans 1:21, “...when they knew God, they
glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their
imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.”
“Go
to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your MISERIES THAT SHALL COME UPON YOU.
Your riches are corrupted…”
(James 5:1,2).
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