I've just been reading a few of the entries on "The Celebrity Atheist List" and found Steve Wozniaks entry refering to an email that states that Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and Larry Ellison are all atheists or agnostic. Steve admits to being "atheist or agnostic", also admitting that he doesn't know the difference.
It occured to me that believing that a god has a plan for you or is otherwise watching over you, or that life goes according to god's plan is a real nice, easy method of social suppression. How many people throughout history have chalked their losses, failures down to "god's will" and left it at that rather than trying again until achieving success?
I wonder how what the ratio is of atheism/agnosticism vs religious beliefs among successful people. And I'm talking about fair dinkum religion, not that bullshit American god of capitalism and ass kissing. Does that ratio match a corresponding enquiry among the general public? I would bet that there's an imbalance towards religion being rarer the higher up the ladder of success we go.
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