What religion did Einstein follow?

Question

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Answer 1

He was culturally a Jew but had also claimed to be an atheist. Some say that at the end of his life he became a Christian. For the most part, he had very individual and strong views about religion.

Answer 2

Einstein was an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist Press Association beginning in 1934, and was an admirer of Ethical Culture.[19] He served on the advisory board of the First Humanist Society of New York.[20][21]

Quotes on his religious Views

My first religious training of any kind was in the Catholic catechism.[22]
and:

I came - though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve."[23]

I do not think that it is necessarily the case that science and religion are natural opposites. In fact, I think that there is a very close connection between the two. Further, I think that science without religion is lame and, conversely, that religion without science is blind. Both are important and should work hand-in-hand.[24]

A Jew who sheds his faith along the way, or who even picks up a different one, is still a Jew.[25]

As an adult, he called his religion a "cosmic religious sense".[26]

In The World As I See It he wrote:

You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds without a peculiar religious feeling of his own. But it is different from the religion of the naive man.

For the latter God is a being from whose care one hopes to benefit and whose punishment one fears; a sublimation of a feeling similar to that of a child for its father, a being to whom one stands to some extent in a personal relation, however deeply it may be tinged with awe.

But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the past. There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.[27]

In response to the telegrammed question of New York's Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein in 1929: "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid 50 words." Einstein replied "I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." Note that Einstein replied in only 25 (German) words. Spinoza was a pantheist.

Answer 3

There is no evidence that Albert Einstein ever became a Jehovah's Witness.

Interestingly, Dwight Eisenhower was raised as a Witness and never formally refuted the faith until political ambitions pushed him to, just before his campaign for President.

Answer 4

He was smart enough to know there is no god and religions are all B.S. meant to explain the unexplained but like many people, it doesn't serve much good to make that very public so he kept it to himself. Even on the website http://www.einsteinandreligion.com he describes how he is religious with caveats as to "how" he is religious, explaining it in somewhat scientific terms as to how the laws of the universe work magically. He clearly does not believe in all of the ludicrous things taught in the bible, he only speaks of religion in loose terms with some higher power or entity.

Answer 5

His parents were non-observant Jews, but he went to a Catholic school, where his first religious teachings were given. I'm uncertain if he followed a religion when he was able to go out for himself, though I would say not.

Answer 6

Judiasim

Answer 7

I'm fairly sure he would've been intelligent enough to know that religion is stupid. People will tell you he was Jewish though.

Answer 8

he was a jew