Than letter was from SPINOZA.
Correspondence of Benedict de Spinoza, Wilder Publications (March 26, 2009), ISBN 1-60459-156-0, letter 73
Elsewhere in the article we find such as this:
"Coleridge and Shelley saw in Spinoza's philosophy a religion of nature [5] and called him the "God-intoxicated Man." [6] [7] Spinoza inspired the poet Shelley to write his essay "The Necessity of Atheism." [6]Spinoza was considered to be an atheist because he used the word "God" [Deus] to signify a concept that was different from that of traditional Judeo–Christian monotheism. "Spinoza expressly denies personality and consciousness to God; he has neither intelligence, feeling, nor will; he does not act according to purpose, but everything follows necessarily from his nature, according to law...." [8] Thus, Spinoza's cool, indifferent God [9] differs from the concept of an anthropomorphic, fatherly God who cares about humanity."
Nobody pretends that Spinoza is easy to understand. The point is that his "God" of the ALL was nothing like any of the religious fables and had none of their inventive (and fabulous) dogma. Nor was there anything in his philosophy that remotely contradicted any facts of reality or any Science or finding or rationalization of any kind! Of Einstein the same may be said! Neither of them lend the slightest support to the ridiculous or the nonsensical or the self serving. |
