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October 4, 2018
Albert Einstein's views on religion
Albert Einstein's Handwritten 'God Letter' to Go on Sale for $1 Million
"The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends," writes the physicist.
"No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this."
The son of secular Ashkenazi Jews and forced to flee Germany after Adolf Hitler took power, Einstein did not exclude Judaism from his critique.
"For me the unadulterated Jewish religion is, like all other religions, an incarnation of primitive superstition and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong, and in whose mentality I feel profoundly anchored, still for me does not have any different kind of dignity from all other peoples. As far as my experience goes, they are in fact no better than other human groups, even if they are protected from the worst excesses by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot perceive anything 'chosen' about them."
Posted by Rob Kiser on October 4, 2018 at 4:51 PM
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