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Melinda French Gates

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
523 total appearances

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Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

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.

Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

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.

Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

I just โ€“ it was like they said that, but then I see them act that way.

Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

Like, you know, some of the priests were actually really mean to the kids.

Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

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.

Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

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?

Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

Or I knew other kids who were Jewish who thought different beliefs, and I'm like โ€“

Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

Like our church thought they were wrong.

Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

And not only are they wrong, they're going to hell.

Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

You just started to realize, no, no, no, there's absolutely a universal spirituality, but whatever it is and wherever it is,

Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

it also is in connection to one another and people.

Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

You see it often in the goodness of people or in some person in very difficult circumstances helping somebody else, right?

Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Melinda French Gates

They have very little meager means themselves, and yet they're giving a dollar to that other family.