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미국에서 부자 순위 1,2위를 다투면서도 서로 절친한 사이라고 알려진 빌 게이츠와 위렌 버펫....
모두 무신론자(반기독교, 반유대교)이면서도 ... 가장 합리적이면서, 그 합리적인 이성으로 막대한 부를 쌓아, 인류에게 자기들이 쌓은 부를  어떻게 사회에 환원하면 가장 합리적일까 고민하는 사람들, 가장 존경할만한 사람들이다.....

 

	Bill Gates

출처: http://www.celebatheists.com/?title=Bill_Gates

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.

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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."

시간자원의 분배 측면에서, 종교(기독교)는 그리 효과적이지 않죠. 저는 일요일 아침에 할 수 있는 많은 일들이 있죠.

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출처: http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2006/06/warren-buffett-turns-against-god.html
Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Warren Buffett Turns Against God

Warren Buffett's recent announcement that he would be donating billions of dollars to charities like Bill Gates' foundation is a slap in the face of God. God gave Buffett his wealth and now Buffett is turning his back on God by taking this gift and giving it away, like an ungrateful relative returning a Christmas present to the store to exchange it for something she wants.

Godless liberal do-gooders often purposely misinterpret the Bible by claiming it is against wealth, though this could not be further from the truth. They like to go through the Bible and pull quotes out of context to justify their socialistic beliefs. Liberals are especially fond of quoting Jesus' words about wealth while ignoring all of the things he said about sins like homosexuality and abortion.

One the passages they always like to quote is Jesus' words "I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Liberals will tell you that Jesus is saying there is something wrong with being rich in this passage, which is ridiculous. Let's look at what he really says. First of all, he doesn't say it is impossible for a rich man to go to heaven, on-l　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　y that it will be "hard," which, of course, it is for everyone. But then doesn't the image of a camel going through the eye of a needle sound impossible? these doubting Thomases will ask. Of course not. First of all, Jesus never says how big the needle is or how small the camel is. A normal-size camel could walk very easily through a gigantic needle and a very, very tiny camel could easily walk through a regular-size needle. Do liberals really believe that God is incapable of making really big needles or little camels? The point of this passage is that anything is possible if you believe in God.

If God was against making money why would he have made His Chosen People so good at it? If God hates money so much why did he make so many Christian preachers rich? Doesn't it seem clear that God is rewarding people like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Oral Roberts and Joel Osteen by making them extremely wealthy? The $5 million that the former head of the Christian Coalition Ralph Reed got from Jack Abramoff, for example, was God's way of paying him off for a job well done. Conspicuous consumption is just on-e　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 way of preaching the Gospel.

"There is more than on-e　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 way to get to heaven, but this is a great way," Buffett said. Apparently, wealthy men like Warren Buffett think they can buy their way into heaven by arrogantly trying to redistribute wealth as if they themselves were God. God made some people poor and some people rich for a reason. He purposely made some people live in third world countries, where it is very difficult to get rich, and other people live in the United States, where everyone has the potential to be rich if they work hard or were born into wealthy families. It is not for us to question God's plan. Communists don't believe in God, so they think they are free to defy God by redistributing wealth to people who don't deserve it, and illegal immigrants try to circumvent God's plan by sneaking across the border instead of staying in their impoverished countries where they belong.

Another important issue that is being ignored in the rush to praise Buffett's "generosity" are the real victims of Buffett's irresponsible actions: his children. Buffett, who also opposes repealing the death tax, is essentially stealing money from his own children to give it away to strangers. What kind of a parent would do something like that? At least Robin Hood didn't rob from his own family. Imagine what would have happened to Paris Hilton and Brandon Davis if they had had a father who shirked his parental duties like Warren Buffett. It should come as no surprise, however, that Buffett is anti-family. Some of his children's hard earned money is also going to his wife's foundation, which supports such anti-family organizations as Planned Parenthood.

Warren Buffett should know that taking money from his children and throwing it away on liberal causes is not going to get him into heaven. The on-l　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　y way he is going to get into heaven is by loving God and the best way he can do that is by enjoying the wealth that God gave him as much as he can.

위 글에 대한 댓글 중 하나...

...........According to Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein (Doubleday, 1995), page 13: “He [Warren] 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.”

워렌은 그의 가족의 종교를 받아들이지 않았다. 그는 어린 나이에도 불구하고 너무 수학적이고, 논리적이어서 종교적 믿음을 뛰어넘었버렸다. 워렌은 그의 아버지의 도덕적 기초만을 받아드렸들뿐, 아버지의 보이지 않는 신에 대한 믿음은 받아들이지 않았다.

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게이츠는 무신론자 이면서도, "빌 앤드 멜린다 게이츠 재단"을 설립하여 사회에 그가 축적한 부를 환원하고자 하는 모습은, 종교를 믿어야만 사람이 도덕적이며 선해진다고 생각하는 일부 유신론자의 근거없는 주장 논거를 부서뜨리는 것 같다.

또한, 게이츠의 절친한 친구인 워렌 버펫(유대인, 무신론자)이 자신의 재산 상당부분(자기 재산의 85%, 300억달러)를 무신론자인 게이츠의 재단에 기부한 점도 주목할 부분이다. 아마, 기독교 종교집단들이 운영하는 복지재단들은 상당히 배가 아팠을걸로 보인다. "아... 우리에게도 모두 기부하지..." 라고 말이다. 워렌 버펫은 그가 쌓은 막대한 부의 사용처를 "신"보다는 게이츠 재단이 잘 판단할 것으로 믿는 것으로 보인다.  

*작자가 기독교인으로 보이는 위의 "신을 배신한 버펫"의 글에서 버펫이 게이츠 재단에 기부금을 낸것을 "신의 뺨 때리기"로 표현한 점이 눈에 띈다. 논거는 예수(GOD)가 도와서 버펫이 돈을 벌었다는 것이다.그러나 버펫이 무신론자인 게이츠의 재단에 막대한 금액을 기부한 것이 못마땅하다는 논조이다. 버펫은 자기의 노력으로 부를 축적하고, 자기이 뜻대로 쓰는데... 뭐가 문제가 된다는 말인가? 
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