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Subject: "warren buffet's religion"
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Asked by: al26-ga
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Posted: 18 May 2003 10:13 PDT
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Question ID: 205456
"warren buffet's religion"
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Subject: Re: "warren buffet's religion"
Answered By: juggler-ga on 18 May 2003 11:31 PDT
Rated:4 out of 5 stars
 
Hello.

Warren Buffett was raised as a Presbyterian, but is now usually
described as an agnostic.

"Warren Buffett
Investor...
Religion: Agnostic"
source: CNN Newsmaker Profiles
http://www.cnn.com/resources/newsmakers/us/business/buffett.html

"...Buffett, a self-professed agnostic... "
source: Wise Counsel
http://www.wisecounselonline.com/newsletter/archives/WC-14.htm

Buffett is also listed an atheist on a web site called Celebrity
Atheists:
http://www.celebatheists.com/

Warren Buffett was raised as a Presbyterian, but is now usually
described as an agnostic. Here are a couple newspaper references that
I obtained from a database available through my local library:

"Dundee Presbyterian Church... The rolls included the young Warren
Buffett, who was baptized and confirmed at Dundee in 1941."
source:
Omaha World - Herald; Omaha, Neb.; May 12, 2001; "Centennial
Celebration Dundee Presbyterian Church looks back on 100 years of
growth"; page 65

"Where his father, a devout Presbyterian, served in Congress as a
far-right Republican, Buffett is an agnostic rationalist who gave up
belief in God at an early age..."
source:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Milwaukee, Wis.; Sep 18, 1995; "Financial
genius is a study in contrasts"; page 23

Also see the book "Buffett The Making an American Capitalist," which
mentions the young Warren Buffett attending Sunday School as a
Presbyterian, but also states that Buffett "did not subscribe to his
family's religion." From Page 13, scanned by Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385484917/ref=lib_rd_ss_TT11/?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=19#reader-link

By the way, to say that Buffett is an "agnostic" means that he "is a
person who feels that God's existence can neither be proved nor
disproved, on the basis of current evidence."
source: Agnosticism
http://www.religioustolerance.org/agnostic.htm

search terms:
"Warren Buffett," agnostic, presbyterian

I hope this helps.
al26-ga rated this answer:4 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $1.00
well researched

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Subject: Re: "warren buffet's religion"
From: juggler-ga on 19 May 2003 16:37 PDT
 
Thank you for the tip.
-juggler

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