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Bill Gates reveals his family attends Catholic church

March 17, 2014

Bill Gates has revealed that his family regularly attends a Catholic church.

“The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important,” the founder of the Microsoft empire said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. “We've raised our kids in a religious way; they've gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in.”

Gates said that his philanthropic work, through the Gates Foundation, is motivated by a desire to reduce inequality, which he characterized as “kind of a religious bellef. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.” He indicated an ambivalence about his own religious beliefs, saying: “I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.”

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