Melinda French Gates
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And I'm saying that because when you're a little kid and you have that much time in church, you have a lot of time to think.
And some of it โ but also some of what was being said at the pulpit just didn't make sense to me as a little kid.
I just โ it was like they said that, but then I see them act that way.
Like, you know, some of the priests were actually really mean to the kids.
Anyway, long story short, just in the arc of my life, I've come to feel more that God is โ definitely there's no one God.
And even when I was a kid, I was like, okay, but people who are Indians believe in these native spirits, but we have a God and only our God is the right one?
Or I knew other kids who were Jewish who thought different beliefs, and I'm like โ
Like our church thought they were wrong.
And not only are they wrong, they're going to hell.
You just started to realize, no, no, no, there's absolutely a universal spirituality, but whatever it is and wherever it is,
it also is in connection to one another and people.
You see it often in the goodness of people or in some person in very difficult circumstances helping somebody else, right?
They have very little meager means themselves, and yet they're giving a dollar to that other family.