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Creation Museum
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RE: Creation Museum
(September 23, 2011 at 11:33 am)Castle Wrote: I do not know how you can read Einstein's hundreds of spiritual and God quotes and then think he has no form of god or spirit.
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To me thats, would be like saying Religion is not the largest topic on this Atheist forum or Dawkins is deeply religious like Einstein.
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I have a 90 year close old friend in Mexico who was a student of Einstein in the US. From his second hand experience he ensures me that Einstein is strongly spiritual and believes in god in his own way (like myself).
No. Einstein was an atheist. You and your "90-year old friend" are so horribly wrong its not even funny, its pathetic.

Quote:Letter to Eric Gutkind (partial)
Albert Einstein (1954)
Translated from the German by Joan Stambaugh


... 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. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them.

In general I find it painful that you claim a privileged position and try to defend it by two walls of pride, an external one as a man and an internal one as a Jew. As a man you claim, so to speak, a dispensation from causality otherwise accepted, as a Jew the priviliege of monotheism. But a limited causality is no longer a causality at all, as our wonderful Spinoza recognized with all incision, probably as the first one. And the animistic interpretations of the religions of nature are in principle not annulled by monopolisation. With such walls we can only attain a certain self-deception, but our moral efforts are not furthered by them. On the contrary.

Now that I have quite openly stated our differences in intellectual convictions it is still clear to me that we are quite close to each other in essential things, ie in our evalutations of human behaviour. What separates us are only intellectual 'props' and `rationalisation' in Freud's language. Therefore I think that we would understand each other quite well if we talked about concrete things.

With friendly thanks and best wishes

Yours, A. Einstein.
http://www.relativitybook.com/resources/...igion.html

You keep saying over and over again Albert Einstein was a spiritualist, well back up your claims. Put up or shut up because I'm getting sick of your bullcrap.

*sigh*

Like with guns, people with psychological or behavioural disorders should not be allowed to gain access to the Internet. Little knowledge and a big ego is a dangerous combination indeed.
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Creation Museum - by Castle - September 22, 2011 at 4:01 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Rokcet Scientist - September 22, 2011 at 4:46 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Zen Badger - September 22, 2011 at 7:14 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Welsh cake - September 22, 2011 at 7:19 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 22, 2011 at 11:46 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Cyberman - September 22, 2011 at 11:24 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2011 at 9:36 am
RE: Creation Museum - by ElDinero - September 22, 2011 at 9:42 am
RE: Creation Museum - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2011 at 10:06 am
RE: Creation Museum - by ElDinero - September 22, 2011 at 11:54 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 22, 2011 at 12:50 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Simon Moon - September 23, 2011 at 2:42 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 23, 2011 at 4:44 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Rokcet Scientist - September 23, 2011 at 4:54 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 23, 2011 at 5:25 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by downbeatplumb - September 22, 2011 at 12:49 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Welsh cake - September 22, 2011 at 7:27 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Rokcet Scientist - September 22, 2011 at 10:37 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 23, 2011 at 2:57 am
RE: Creation Museum - by jmayerfan - September 22, 2011 at 11:34 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Rokcet Scientist - September 23, 2011 at 1:26 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Minimalist - September 23, 2011 at 1:31 am
RE: Creation Museum - by jmayerfan - September 26, 2011 at 8:32 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by ElDinero - September 23, 2011 at 4:25 am
RE: Creation Museum - by jmayerfan - September 23, 2011 at 9:30 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Zen Badger - September 24, 2011 at 7:35 am
RE: Creation Museum - by R-e-n-n-a-t - September 23, 2011 at 9:45 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Welsh cake - September 23, 2011 at 7:11 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 23, 2011 at 11:33 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Welsh cake - September 23, 2011 at 6:45 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 23, 2011 at 9:51 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by The Grand Nudger - September 23, 2011 at 10:04 am
RE: Creation Museum - by ElDinero - September 23, 2011 at 12:10 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Rokcet Scientist - September 23, 2011 at 1:23 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 23, 2011 at 1:47 pm
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RE: Creation Museum - by The Grand Nudger - September 23, 2011 at 2:23 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 23, 2011 at 3:24 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Faith No More - September 23, 2011 at 4:03 pm
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RE: Creation Museum - by Faith No More - September 23, 2011 at 5:49 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Rokcet Scientist - September 23, 2011 at 6:12 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by ElDinero - September 23, 2011 at 9:16 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 24, 2011 at 1:52 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Rokcet Scientist - September 24, 2011 at 3:05 am
RE: Creation Museum - by The Grand Nudger - September 23, 2011 at 5:16 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Ace Otana - September 23, 2011 at 5:30 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Rokcet Scientist - September 23, 2011 at 5:35 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Faith No More - September 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Rokcet Scientist - September 23, 2011 at 8:05 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Ace Otana - September 23, 2011 at 8:13 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by The Grand Nudger - September 23, 2011 at 8:18 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Rokcet Scientist - September 23, 2011 at 9:25 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by ElDinero - September 23, 2011 at 9:41 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by jmayerfan - September 26, 2011 at 11:17 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by ElDinero - September 27, 2011 at 5:40 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Minimalist - September 23, 2011 at 10:15 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by KichigaiNeko - September 24, 2011 at 7:06 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 24, 2011 at 11:48 am
RE: Creation Museum - by The Grand Nudger - September 24, 2011 at 8:39 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Welsh cake - September 24, 2011 at 9:04 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 24, 2011 at 2:59 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 25, 2011 at 10:55 am
RE: Creation Museum - by The Grand Nudger - September 24, 2011 at 12:22 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Rokcet Scientist - September 24, 2011 at 12:37 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by ElDinero - September 24, 2011 at 12:40 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Welsh cake - September 24, 2011 at 1:01 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by The Grand Nudger - September 24, 2011 at 3:00 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Cyberman - September 25, 2011 at 1:49 am
RE: Creation Museum - by R-e-n-n-a-t - September 25, 2011 at 5:44 am
RE: Creation Museum - by downbeatplumb - September 25, 2011 at 9:57 am
RE: Creation Museum - by ElDinero - September 25, 2011 at 1:20 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 25, 2011 at 1:46 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Faith No More - September 25, 2011 at 3:05 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 25, 2011 at 10:51 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by The Grand Nudger - September 25, 2011 at 11:20 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Minimalist - September 26, 2011 at 9:32 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by jmayerfan - September 26, 2011 at 11:27 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by ElDinero - September 26, 2011 at 9:35 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by subhendusc - September 26, 2011 at 11:21 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by Minimalist - September 26, 2011 at 11:26 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by The Grand Nudger - September 27, 2011 at 12:41 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Minimalist - September 27, 2011 at 12:50 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 27, 2011 at 10:33 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Rokcet Scientist - September 27, 2011 at 8:50 pm
RE: Creation Museum - by The Grand Nudger - September 27, 2011 at 11:06 am
RE: Creation Museum - by Castle - September 27, 2011 at 10:20 pm

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