'Belief in God childish..." Einstein letter (auction)

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May 13 08:24 AM US/Eastern


(Man asks court to change his name to 'In God We Trust' in fear of atheism)


Albert Einstein described belief in God as "childish superstition" and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday.
The father of relativity, whose previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made the comments in response to a philosopher in 1954.

As a Jew himself, Einstein said he had a great affinity with Jewish people but said they "have no different quality for me than all other people".

"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," he wrote in the letter written on January 3, 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, cited by The Guardian newspaper.

Einstein didn't deal in myths... this is no surprise to me.

By the way, this article is undoubtedly the work of the Devil.

Nuclear weapons may yet be the death of us all.

Knowledge is a deady friend when no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools.
-- Epitaph, by King Crimson

Too bad evolution isn't real. Otherwise, we could evolve into more responsible beings.
:sarcasm:

Silly old fool. Who ever heard of anything so daft? Pulling it all together, eh? "God does this", "God wouldn't do that". God of the Gaps, indeed!

n/t

His comments provided a little bit of "fresh air."

Tis was totally weird for me. The letter was written the day before I was born. Then yesterday I saw on the Today Show Robert Schulmann, former director of the Einstein Papers Project and co-editor of his collected papers. He said ol' 'Bert actually believed in a higher intelligence. Guess he never saw this letter.

Is an awakening into knowing that the Media tells us only what they want too.

Before right-wingers in Freepland start distorting Einstein's words about Jews, let's note that he is a Jew himself and that he made clear that Jews and everybody else are equal:

he said,

As a Jew himself, Einstein said he had a great affinity with Jewish people but said they "have no different quality for me than all other people".

great minds believe foolish things.RIP