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Originally Posted by Pretentious By some of the quotes I've seen, I thought he didn't believe in God. |
He has said he doesn't believe in god, yes:
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Originally Posted by Albert Einstein "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly." |
But at the same time, he said that in his own view (a pantheistic view, NOT a Judeo-Christian view), that he believes nature is so perfect that it deserves the same amount of respect as a god would:
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Originally Posted by Albert Einstein "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings." |
Einstein's "belief" in Spinoza's God is one of his most widely quoted statements. But quoted out of context, like so many of these statements, it is misleading at best. It all started when Boston's Cardinal O'Connel attacked Einstein and the General Theory of Relativity and warned the youth that the theory "cloaked the ghastly apparition of atheism" and "befogged speculation, producing universal doubt about God and His creation"(Clark, 1971, 413-414). In short, people take what he said completely out of context. He was an atheist people, get over it.