Religion, Science, Bla! Bla!

[IceSoul]

Re: Religion, Science, Bla! Bla!

@diwana

So when nhe says " I am definitely not an atheist" you do not believe himself and adamant of making him one?

He even said these and was angry on those who wanted to portray him as atheist.

He even said he is deeply religious.

He was from jewish family. Had problem with Bible.

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"Einstein also stated: “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.”

According to Hubertus, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Einstein said, “In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.”[SUP][6]
Attempts by the press to present Albert Einstein as a conventionally religious man provoked a self-made man from New Jersey, J. Dispentiere, to write to Einstein on 22 March 1954. He declared himself an atheist and expressed doubts as to the accuracy of what he had read about Einstein’s beliefs. Einstein answered forthwith on 24 March 1954:[SUP][S2][/SUP]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.

In his 1949 book The World as I See It, he wrote: "A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms—it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man."[SUP][size=2][8]](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/#cite_note-7)[/SUP]

He said “I’m religious” in this context:

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced
there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose
beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble
reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.’

Again, using God as a metaphor. Also, I gave a lot more evidence in which he said that he WAS an ATHEIST.[/size]