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If you're one of those Christians that claims Einstein as one of their own, what do you think about this?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/albert-einsteins-god-lett...
"A letter handwritten by physicist Albert Einstein a year before his death, expressing his views on religion, will be sold on eBay this month with an opening bid of $3 million, an auction agency said on Tuesday.
Known as the 'God Letter,' the correspondence offers insights into the private thoughts about religion, God and tribalism of one of the world's most brilliant minds."
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"'...The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this,' wrote the German-born scientist, who in 1921 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics."
*one of your own*. Trying to focus on eating. Happy Thanksgiving R&S!
"He identified as an agnostic who thought the concept of knowing if there was a god or not was well out of our range of possibilities."
~ I'll add that Einstein subscribed to the concept of Spinoza's God, a form of Pantheism, as well.
"Some atheists try to establish street cred by claiming various people were atheist. "
~A possible few, however I've seen innumerable Christian fight like wolves over Einsteins religiosity, insisting that he worshipped the Bible.
"Some atheists try to establish street cred by claiming various people were atheist. "
~A possible few, however I've seen innumerable Christian fight like wolves over Einsteins religiosity, insisting that he worshipped the Bible.
6 Answers
- ?Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Einstein was nowhere close to being a Christian, but nor was he an atheist. He identified as an agnostic who thought the concept of knowing if there was a god or not was well out of our range of possibilities. He did remark that the concept of an anthropomorphic/personal god was childlike and naive, but said he preferred this to the crusading hatred of Christians present in most atheists.
- Anonymous9 years ago
You sound really stupid and without a personal sense of truth. What does your energy on this say about you ? That you are trivial spiteful insecure and in great need of affirmation, for which you will do anything that gets applause, even from people who would cross the street if they saw you in real life.
Why not help the world instead.
- ?Lv 79 years ago
Oh woe is me....
I don't claim Einstein. He shares responsibility for the nuking of a lot of very nice Japanese. Some atheists try to establish street cred by claiming various people were atheist.
It doesn't matter who believe or believed in God. It matters that I believe in God.
Plenty of brilliant people are only brilliant in one field. I am quite certain I could have taken him in a violin competition. That doesn't make me a genius nor does it indicate I have even the most rudimentary understanding of physics.
Watch for this selective brilliance in your living heroes.
- Max MolyneuxLv 59 years ago
EINSTINE HIM ATHEIS NO BIBEL WERSHIP HE REEL SMART ATHEIS NOT CRISTEN. BIBEL JUS FOR LITLE KIDS.
- Anonymous9 years ago
YOU KNOW WHAT? THEN HE CAN DIE! HE CAN DIE AND GO TO HELL TOO! DAMN BLASPHEMER! SEND HIM TO HELL! HELL IS WHERE HIS KIND BELONGS!
Source(s): IM SO UPSET!
