Responding to a letter in which he was asked if he was Jewish religiously since he was ethnically he said this.
"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. For me the unadulterated Jewish religion is, like all other religions, an incarnation of primitive superstition."
I think it's rather clear. The letter was verified and sold for 2.1 million US dollars posthumously.
While alive he was a thorn in the side of other physicists who straight up told him that his constant use of the word "God" would someday be used in quotes despite his open atheism.
He didn't seem to give a shit, insisting anyone capable of actually understanding his papers would easily understand that his use of "God" was shorthand for the four forces: Electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and gravity.
It's pretty understandable that the man who discovered special relativity itself thought humans would better manage misinformation in the future, especially as he was openly atheist. I would have thought the same and I'm not Einstein. He failed to imagine a future wherein people simply pull whatever they wish from context to support their views.
Unlike "God doesn't play dice" which was an assertion that the universe is completely deterministic during his initial frustrations with the very quantum mechanics he helped discover, the letter didn't leave room for interpretation to even laymen.
How familiar are you with the term theist? Theists do not believe in the bible. We dont believe in a physical god. We believe god is something we can not understand. An intelligent force thats description eludes us.
Heres a quote of Einstein rejecting atheism and in my opinion seems to be giving theism a thought. Pantheism and theism is pretty much the same thing
"Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a PanTHEIST. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds."
"We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's PanTHEISM. I admire even more his contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things."
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Look, I've followed Einstein my entire life.
Responding to a letter in which he was asked if he was Jewish religiously since he was ethnically he said this.
"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. For me the unadulterated Jewish religion is, like all other religions, an incarnation of primitive superstition."
I think it's rather clear. The letter was verified and sold for 2.1 million US dollars posthumously.
While alive he was a thorn in the side of other physicists who straight up told him that his constant use of the word "God" would someday be used in quotes despite his open atheism.
He didn't seem to give a shit, insisting anyone capable of actually understanding his papers would easily understand that his use of "God" was shorthand for the four forces: Electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and gravity.
It's pretty understandable that the man who discovered special relativity itself thought humans would better manage misinformation in the future, especially as he was openly atheist. I would have thought the same and I'm not Einstein. He failed to imagine a future wherein people simply pull whatever they wish from context to support their views.
Unlike "God doesn't play dice" which was an assertion that the universe is completely deterministic during his initial frustrations with the very quantum mechanics he helped discover, the letter didn't leave room for interpretation to even laymen.
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How familiar are you with the term theist? Theists do not believe in the bible. We dont believe in a physical god. We believe god is something we can not understand. An intelligent force thats description eludes us.
Heres a quote of Einstein rejecting atheism and in my opinion seems to be giving theism a thought. Pantheism and theism is pretty much the same thing
"Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a PanTHEIST. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds."
"We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's PanTHEISM. I admire even more his contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things."