Einstein, God and Controversy
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Albert Einstein’s death was in 1955. Yet, decades after, there are occasions where his works or letters are in the news; and stirs controversy. In an Einstein letter that will be auctioned, the Nobel Prize physicist states:
“…Einstein writes “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.”
Born to a Jewish family in Germany in 1879, he also adds that “for me, the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.”"
link: Belief in God a ‘product of human weaknesses’: Einstein letter
The controversy that the letters stirs certainly would appeal to Einstein’s sense of humour.
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6 Comments
Dave Simpson
May 14th, 2008
at 1:37am
Mr Einstein was a clever man but clearly he didn’t know everything.
Jesus is God.
PTyson
May 14th, 2008
at 4:54am
Dave,
Einstein knows now.
Lannie Walker,Sr
May 14th, 2008
at 8:28am
I am a born again atheist and even if Einstein had believed in God it
still would not cause god to exist. I suggest the religious to read
“Moses and Monotheism” by Sigmund Freud where there is a comprehensive
and entirely lucid examination of monotheism.
Frank Schnyder
May 14th, 2008
at 5:55pm
Where’s the link? It’s not clickable.
forsythe
May 14th, 2008
at 7:19pm
Frank, thanks for bring the trouble to my attention. The link should work now. Just in case, I will post the link here too:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/05/13/einstein-religion.html?ref=rss
Catherine
Dan
May 15th, 2008
at 6:03am
Sounds about right to me.