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Albert Einstein the Agnostic
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RE: Albert Einstein the Agnostic
(February 23, 2016 at 11:14 am)Jehanne Wrote: Einstein is dead.  If he were alive today, what would he think now?

"Er, hello? Can anyone hear me? I think there's been a mistake - I'm not dead, you see! Can you fetch a shovel, please?

... Hello?"

As for his religious beliefs, I posted an extract from his own autobiographical notes on that very thing (apparently five times now).
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Albert Einstein the Agnostic
(February 23, 2016 at 11:14 am)Jehanne Wrote:
(January 24, 2016 at 4:02 pm)MattB Wrote: Found this quote on a blog and not sure what to make of it.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God
is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share
the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is
mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of
religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of
humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual
understanding of nature and our own being.

Sincerely Yours,

Albert Einstein

Einstein is dead.  If he were alive today, what would he think now?

That the Nazis won? :-))) No idea we another of his type now.
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