Pattonfiend67

Religion will be the downfall of man, said Einstein...

The only thing "religion" has caused is war, death, plague, and destruction... we should use the bible as, like the brother said before, guidelines... too much has been proven wrong by science...

LONDON — Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core?

A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel prize-winning physicist's religious views.

In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish."

The letter, handwritten in German, is being sold by Bloomsbury Auctions on Thursday and is expected to fetch between $12,000 and $16,000.

Einstein, who helped unravel the mysteries of the universe with his theory of relativity, expressed complex and arguably contradictory views on faith, perceiving a universe suffused with spirituality while rejecting organized religion.

The letter up for sale, written to philosopher Eric Gutkind in January 1954, suggests his views on religion did not mellow with age.
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In it, Einstein said that "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."

"For me," he added, "the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions."

Addressing the idea that the Jews are God's chosen people, Einstein wrote that "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."

Bloomsbury spokesman Richard Caton said the auction house was "100 percent certain" of the letter's authenticity.

It is being offered at auction for the first time, by a private vendor.

John Brooke, emeritus professor of science and religion at Oxford University, said the letter lends weight to the notion that "Einstein was not a conventional theist" — although he was not an atheist, either.

"Like many great scientists of the past, he is rather quirky about religion, and not always consistent from one period to another," Brooke said.

Born to a Jewish family in Germany in 1879, Einstein said he went through a devout phase as a child before beginning to question conventional religion at the age of 12.

In later life, he expressed a sense of wonder at the universe and its mysteries — what he called a "cosmic religious feeling" — and famously said: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

But, he also said: "I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws."

Brooke said Einstein believed that "there is some kind of intelligence working its way through nature. But it is certainly not a conventional Christian or Judaic religious view."

Einstein's most famous legacy is the special theory of relativity, which makes the point that a large amount of energy could be released from a tiny amount of matter, as expressed in the equation E=MC2 (energy equals mass times the speed of light squared).

The theory changed the face of physics, allowing scientists to make predictions about space and paving the way for nuclear power and the atomic bomb.

Einstein's musings on science, war, peace and God helped make him world famous, and his scientific legacy prompted Time magazine to name him its Person of the 20th Century.





It is a sad state of affairs that people have to believe in fairy tales, instead of believing in peace and loving one another regardless of their faith, race, sex, handicap, sexual preference, etc...

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pajseriko

it's up to you to decide whether you believe he resurrected or not... but there's one thing you shouldn't to discuss, and there's no doubt... Jesus was a historical personage that's a fact!

he existed and he still exists, those are my personal believes...

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East Atlanta Veteran

well if they aint christian wut r they ?? well in my old world goegraphy book it says " CHRISTIANITY IS THE BUGGEST RELIGION " THEN COM JUDDISM OR SUMTIN
BUT I AINT SAY JAHOVA WAS GOD .. BUT LIKE I SAID SHIT GO REALL DEEP AND UNTIL U STUDY IT THEN U CAN COM BAQ WITH THE " that was a mistranslation germans made 200 years ago." U CANT BEILIEVE EVERY THING U READ OR HEAR
I KNOW ALOT OF PEOPLE WHO STUDY THE TRUTH .. THE REAL HISTORY AND THE FACT THAT SCIENTIST CANT FULLY EXPLAIN JESUS NOT EXSISTING ... BUT IF U STUDY THE " JAHOVAS WITNESS RELIGION " IT WILL EXPLAIN HOW SCIENTIST WILL TRY TO PROVE HE IS NOT REAL BUT GET STUCK AND THE ONLY WAY THEY CULD GO FORWARD IS IF THEY READ THE BIBLE .. WHICH WILL TELL THEM .. HE IS REAL ..\BUT I HAVENT BEEN TO "CHURCH" IN 6 YEARS I HAVENT STUDY IN 2 YEARS SO
BUT 1 OF MY FRIENDS SAY THE BIBLE IS BS
HE SAY HIM AND SUM FREINDS WAS READING A BOOK THEY FOUND IN THIS OLD LIBRARY OUT SUM WHERE IN TEXAS SAYIN " THE REAL BIBLE IS IN ETHIOPIA . A MAN WENT TO AN EMPTY ETHIOPIAN CITY AND FOUND THE " REAL BIBLE " BUT WEN HE CAME BACK OUT TO HOUSE .. ETHIOPIANS STONED HIM TO DEATH SO " THE REAL BIBLE " IS STILL IN ETHIOPIA ""
BUT WUT I MEAN BY REAL BIBLE IS THE UNTOUCHED BY MAN 1 .. THE 1 WITH THE 17 AMENDMENTS .. THE 1 SAYIN SATAN WAS A ANGEL THAT FELL FROM HEAVEN
BUT U KNOW LIKE I SAID IM NOT SMART ABOUT THIS STUFF BUT I HEARD ALOT AND I MEAN ALOT OF STUFF FROM ALOT OF DIFF. PEOPLE

Ed_fromCstreet

whatever you say man

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EndriT

SUPERMAN EXISTS!

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LNC101

he did exist just my opinion i believe he walked this earth

wonderboimarc

opinion.

Ed_fromCstreet

so uh, einstiens letter sold for a couple hundred thousands dollars.

that fuckin sucks because we may never see that letter again.

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corndog45

the video is kind of wack.. if jesus existed or not is really a non-issue
believe if you want that he did, or didnt.. but theres some things that are more important

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Sexy1

Tell him to his face on Judgement Day.