What was Einstein's religion?

Answer 1

Unitarian, he recognized a god he just was not sure which one.
one of parents was jewish and the other was catholic.
he later converted to the unitarian church.
and was friend with the founder, mary baker eddy.

Answer 2

Science. I think he might have believed in God, he did say "God does not play dice with the universe" which could mean he believed in order and control, but either way, he had to have believed in Laws, because that is what science is based on. So even if he didn't believe in Christian's view of religion, I think he had to have some spiritual curiosity based on his insights into the universe. Also, one of his theories was that the universe was made entirely of light, and most religions/spiritualities believe that God is light, so either way the beliefs are not far off. Religion-types believe through faith, Einstein believed through facts. In the long run I see them as relatively the same. (small einstein joke).

Answer 3

Einstein was best described as a freethinker. He rejected the biblical Gods, the personal Gods, but didn't deny a supernatural being or force. He was not a Jew by belief, nor was he affiliated with any belief in any other religion. He found the universe and its mystical existence to be all the religion he needed.

Answer 4

He was raised Jewish, but his parents didn't attend Temple regularly. Neither did he as an adult. However, I believe his family left Germany because of the Gestapo.

Nevertheless, he always held---I think-----a pretty firm belief in God, although I believe he would have defined God a little more loosely than the prevailing Judeo-Christian conception of the time.

He did not believe there could be such things as black holes, even though it was his own work that indicated their existence. I think I read somewhere that perhaps the reason he refused to accept the possibility of black holes, was that they seem to contradict the existence of God.

The sources I give, below, are filled other resources, links and lots of information. They are only two of many.

Answer 5

Einstein respected Buddhism, and Pantheism. He believed that there is a balance between the physical and the spiritual. He claimed no organized religious beliefs.

Answer 6

I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals Himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings.
—Albert Einstein

I would call that Deism.

Answer 7

He was raised Jewish, but became somewhat of a Deist in his adult life. He was not religious in the normal sense, but he could have been considered spiritual in the awe he had for nature, and his FAITH in an orderly universe. That was his religion.

Answer 8

He was Jewish by birth but not practicing his faith. When he spoke of God, such as comments about not playing dice, he was referring to Nature, the universe, and its laws itself as God, or at most, the god of a deist. He did not believe in a God that concerns himself with or participates in any way with the daily lives of his creatures. Any article that you find will verify this, except possibly some very biased claims by those who want to claim him as one of their own.

Answer 9

I concur with Pudding's answer. He was born to jewish parents but was not religious. He can be best described as a freethinker.
What he called god was a supreme law that governs all laws in this universe. Not a god concerned with human sin and morality!

Answer 10

Jewish, The Japaneese, Swedish and Jewish are all taught at young ages that growing your brian is the most important b 4 anything else.

Answer 11

He rejected conventional religon during his teens.
You can find more info here:

http://www.einsteinandreligion.com/

It just proves how the greatest mind think of religions.