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To: longnshort who wrote (47456)	2/24/2014 10:36:34 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

"EINSTEIN IS LAUGHING AT YOU" Oh, so you think he was wrong , you dweeb! CHUCKLE!

To: longnshort who wrote (47456)	2/24/2014 10:43:02 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 69300

Albert Einstein: From a Jesuit Viewpoint, I am an Atheist I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. - Albert Einstein, letter to Guy H. Raner Jr, July 2, 1945, responding to a rumor that a Jesuit priest had caused Einstein to convert from atheism; quoted by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic, Vol. 5, No. 2

To: longnshort who wrote (47456)	2/24/2014 10:44:06 PM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Recommended By Greg or e Respond to of 69300

Albert Einstein: Nonbelievers Can Be Bigoted Like Believers The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

To: longnshort who wrote (47456)	2/24/2014 10:44:48 PM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Recommended By Greg or e Respond to of 69300

Albert Einstein: I am Not a Crusading, Professional Atheist 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 of our own being.

To: longnshort who wrote (47456)	2/24/2014 10:45:37 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 69300

Albert Einstein: God is a Product of Human Weakness 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. Letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, January 3, 1954

To: longnshort who wrote (47456)	2/24/2014 10:46:21 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 69300

Albert Einstein & Spinoza's God: Harmony in the Universe I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. - Albert Einstein, responding to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein's question "Do you believe in God?" quoted in: Has Science Found God?, by Victor J Stenger

To: longnshort who wrote (47456)	2/24/2014 10:47:18 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 69300

Albert Einstein: It is a Lie that I Believe in a Personal God It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. - Albert Einstein, letter to an atheist (1954), quoted in Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas & Banesh Hoffman

To: longnshort who wrote (47456)	2/24/2014 10:48:21 PM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Recommended By Solon Respond to of 69300

Albert Einstein: Human Fantasy Created Gods During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution, human fantasy created gods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal world. - Albert Einstein, quoted in: 2000 Years of Disbelief, James Haught

To: longnshort who wrote (47456)	2/24/2014 10:48:58 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 69300

Albert Einstein: Desire for Guidance & Love Creates Belief in Gods The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even or life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God. - Albert Einstein, New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930