== Atheist == 
 Oh, really?  The only evidence that the  of this "fact" has to offer is a listing in the somewhat dubious Celebrity Atheist List, using a single-sentence quote from Fast Food Nation, a sensationalizing book that isn't even a biography of J.R. Simplot.  Unless evidence can be produced that Simplot actually believed there wasn't a deity, at best we can say that his religious beliefs were agnosticism or "unknown".  This smacks of intellectual dishonesty, at the least.  — @