Einstein critical of Religion
Posted on: May 13, 2008 - 12:40pm
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Einstein critical of Religion
A little known letter written by Albert Einstein is to be auctioned off this weekend in London.
The letter sheds further light on Einstein's view of religious beliefs.
A few excerpts:
Quote:
"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.""For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people".
A well written article on the subject published by the Guardian UK here:www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/12/peopleinscience.religion
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
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Both Christians and Jews will falsely accuse us of making this up.
They cant seem to grasp the simple difference between
1. A person
and
2. The separate issue of a specific claim a person might make.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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In my opinion there was already suffiecent eveidence to put claim of his religon to rest.But nothing will convince theists Hitler wasn't atheist,and Einstein wasn't theist.(or spefically christian)
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Argument from Sadism: Theist presents argument in a wall of text with no punctuation and wrong spelling. Atheist cannot read and is forced to concede.
And no amount of repetitions will convince a theist that it doesn't matter one bit who was or wasn't a theist.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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My favorite Einstein fact is that his parents took in a young Rabbinical student named Max Talmud. Max Talmud, Jewish Avenger.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
--Bertrand Russell
You are wrong about this Hamby, Dinesh constantly brings up people like Newton who were Christian Scientists that could reconcile religion and reason. Its obviously a bad argument, but it is being made by theists as an appeal to authority of specific cherrypicked scientists who believed in God. Dinesh is dishonest, but most apologetics are, so while they might not relent to specific nonreligionist claims of some scientists, they still tweek history to their advantage and won't face the facts that in the current era, almost all serious scientists reject the idea of a personal god.
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda
I wasn't clear, apparently. I was saying that theists won't stop using the appeal to authority, even though it's obviously a bad argument, and this has been pointed out over and over.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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