Dear Atheists

[Simon Moon]

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"The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religion." - Albert Einstein

I think this was why Einstein didn't consider himself a Atheist. Or In any religion for that matter.

When Einstein talked like this, he was almost always referring to the awe he experienced while pondering the universe. Nothing supernatural.

I can guarantee that the feeling I get when I take my 15" telescope out away from city lights and look at deep space objects, is the same one Einstein is talking about.

But it doesn't really matter. Just because he was an enormously brilliant person, does not give him any more insight into the 'mystical' than anyone else. So, your post reeks of argument from authority.

But I'll go ahead and add this Einstein quote:

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change this for me"

The only thing I disagree with, is that, the Bible stories are not honorable.