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No. Einstein was an atheist. You and your "90-year old friend" are so horribly wrong its not even funny, its pathetic.

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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Where in that letter did Einstein claim he is an atheist. In fact where did Einstein write, show me one thing where Einstein claimed he is an atheist. Other than what atheists for obvious reason, claimed him as an atheist. ...No wonder, again I'm given this mainly greatest atheist in human history lists, where many great men not self proclaim atheist.

Itt, not in your letter, he dislike for Monolithically religions, like myself and even much mush greater Dawkins. For most part I think much the same as Einstein said, that he believed in a pantheistic God (a god that is the universe), his comments and statements admitting creation and divine thought better describe a theistic god.”

In conclusion, Einstein was not an atheist, and did not claim to be an atheist because did not know who God was. Nevertheless, he believed in God but not a personal god.

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He has moments of lucidity.

In the bathroom.

Rokcet maybe you have had enough of last words , your are sounding a little drunken.