{"id":94,"date":"2008-03-26T05:58:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T13:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/wordpress\/?p=94"},"modified":"2010-09-04T05:39:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T13:39:06","slug":"bills-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Bill&#8217;s Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a &#8220;quote of the day&#8221; feature on my Google home page. This is the one I saw today:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p>\nJust in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There&#8217;s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.<br \/>\n  <br \/>&#8211; Bill Gates<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is efficiency, and how do we measure it? I probably spend an hour or two a week at church, but I think I gain a great deal from it&#8230; both in terms of the spiritual recharging it supplies to me and the life lessons it teaches to my children. I think it is no small benefit to a little one to see his\/her parents on their knees giving thanks to his Creator.<\/p>\n<p>Many people complain about the &#8220;boring ritual,&#8221; etc. But unless you regularly worship God you will probably never understand the kind of spiritual consolations that can descend on you in that environment.  I suppose color blind people may find rainbows uninteresting, or gazing at them to be inefficient.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-94\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=94&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-94\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=94&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a &#8220;quote of the day&#8221; feature on my Google home page. 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