Why do so many theists lie about Einstein's religious beliefs?

Question

Why claim that Einstein was deeply religious when this is simply false. is your argument so weak that you must resort to lies.

Why have these people ignored what Einstein himself had to say :

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. [Albert Einstein, Religion and Science, New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930]

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, 1954, from Albert Einstein: The Human Side]

Answer 1

Everybody wants to claim the smart ones. Then they will be smart by association.

Answer 2

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.

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. [ Peter A. Bucky, et. al., The Private Albert Einstein (Kansas City, 1992), p. 85.]

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

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.

In response to the telegrammed question of New York's Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein in 1929: "Do you believe in God? Stop." 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." Spinoza was a naturalistic pantheist.

Answer 3

I don't know where they get the idea that Einstein was a religious man, but after being a student of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics I do know that Einstein marveled at the intelligence of design but never actually made a public expression that could be noted as empirical evidence of a personal faith in God. While inferences could be made that he was hinting at the possibility of the existence of God, he never actually carried that thought to the logical conclusion publicly.

As for the foundational premise of your question however...why do people lie? I am not smart enough to answer that one...sorry

Answer 4

Einstein was a great human being...needless to say. Still many things can be said about his life. We will never know...

And no matter what, my admiration for him has nothing to do with my feith. I am a muslim and my feith doesnt depend on what other says...but seems u are like the kind of "follower" person...dont blame u any way.

Answer 5

"This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." --Einstein

Answer 6

He said: "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." [http://www.einsteinandreligion.com/freethink.html]

Since he hadn't exactly done much groundbreaking work by age 12, it's fair to assume that the "Einstein" people refer to was not religious, although he did express a certain admiration for Buddhism, but more for its openness than for its actual beliefs.

Answer 7

Because people want to prove that Einstein said something that supports their own religious veiw, therefore bringing an intellectual validity that their own relgion wouldn't have through it's own theology and dogmas.

Answer 8

I hadn't paid interest to his ideals or lack thereof. Yours is a maximum suitable question, with very exciting costs. i've got consistently been particularly prepared on Einstein's view of insanity: "The definition of insanity is doing a similar concern lower back and lower back lower back and awaiting distinctive outcomes". i do no longer while he pronounced this or maybe a hundred% specific if he pronounced it, yet i like it. it is so real. I additionally like his view that throughout easy terms 2 issues are limitless: the universe and guy's stupidity, and that he wasn't so specific with reference to the universe. it relatively is not appropriate to me despite that Einstein wasn't non secular. Neither am I. Nor that he did no longer have self assurance in god. Neither do I. I think of human beings would lie approximately his ideals because of the fact they like to declare him as "theirs", in simple terms as many distinctive international locations have tried to declare Shakespeare replaced into truthfully a citizen of their us of a and that his works are maximum suitable study of their "unique" of their very own language! according to probability they like "heros". according to probability they have been taught he replaced right into a deeply non secular guy. i'm involved to return in a pair of days and spot what kinds of solutions seem right here. stable question!

Answer 9

Einstein was a brainbox but how relevant were his views on theology? He should have stuck to physics and pursuing young women with questionable personal hygiene.

Answer 10

Einstein probably knows how Atoms work now.