Consider this Quote?

Question

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; 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 Einstien

What does it mean for those that had it to be that god sets down the laws by which to run life? Are they wrong?

Is this a better system than relying or religion to tell us what is right and what is wrong?

Does the power of this statement come from the fact that it was said by a respected figure?

Please xplain your answers.

I thank you in advance for your answers.

Answer 1

Absolute power corrupts as do people who think absolutlely

Einstien's quote is his belief that people behave on their ethics based on their education, socialism, and emotions. This is what I believe it to be saying...

A person can only grow and develop so much if their mind is always stuck on religion and God. Almost everything they believe is in one book. People who try to convert others to make more friends who will believe what they do is wrong. Monks and nuns who arent allowed any personal effects like $$ are the same way. would people learn much about science or anything if God told them it was bad?

Religion might be one foundation on what may be wrong or right. Yet for someone to believe it blindly and not adapt it to their own morals and ideals is wrong. People who are afraid to take risks in life or scared to sin, they will become poor and wont get very far in the world. Im not saying to go out and sin, but dont believe everything you hear is more the case. Example: Kids only being good because they want Santa to give them something for Xmas. They fear getting nothing or coal.

I believe anything becomes more powerful when said by a person of stature. Knowledge is power. Power also comes from within you and with the help of friends. Parents teach you your morals as does school and other people. Though some schools in Afganistan, etc probably shout that Americans are evil, etc. Yet its your choice to believe it for yourself and ask why.

Answer 2

What our friend Albert said is, "The man who is thoroughly convinced of the universal operation of the law of causation cannot for a moment entertain the idea of a being who interferes in the course of events - provided, of course, that he takes the hypothesis of causality really seriously. He has no use for the religion of fear and equally little for social or moral religion. A God who rewards and punishes is inconceivable to him for the simple reason that a man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal, so that in God's eyes he cannot be responsible, any more than an inanimate object is responsible for the motions it undergoes. Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. 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 hopes of reward after death. It is therefore easy to see why the churches have always fought science and persecuted its devotees. On the other hand, I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research. Only those who realize the immense efforts and, above all, the devotion without which pioneer work in theoretical science cannot be achieved are able to grasp the strength of the emotion out of which alone such work, remote as it is from the immediate realities of life, can issue."

Does that help to clarify his respect for divinity?

Answer 3

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; 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

I see the essence of his message but he worded it in a way that makes its interpretation vulnerable to the twist. My interpretation is this: That in absence of threat and unearthly hope it is possible for man to found his ethics and practices in life upon sympathy, education and social ties; fear and distraction come against the humans self sensuousness and liberty of free thought. Fear strangles free thought and the hope for life after life lures the mind from due diligence or attention for duty.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 4

Sorry to burst your bubble but there is a hole in your thinking.

Those who believe that God set down the laws of the universe are not wrong. Einstein himself believed as much. Einstein even acknowledged Jesus Christ. While I am unsure of how closely he relied on God, EINSTEIN IN NO WAY DENIED THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.

Part of what I think Einstein is expressing here stems from a frustration with the way man has made religion out to be. The idea that it is merely a series of little rules and regulations meant to pat the 'righteous' on the back. This vain illusion is the driving force behind most world religions BUT NOT TRUE CHRISTIANITY.

True Christianity is much more than a religion. IT IS A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ONE AND ONLY GOD WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE. This relationship is based on neither 'fear of punishment' nor 'hope of reward'. It is based on LOVE and it is because of this love that we rely on GOD (not just some 'religion') to tell us the difference between right and wrong.

The so called 'power' of this statement comes from the fact that those who wish to disprove the existence of God, will falsely interpret this as 'proof' of His non-existence.
Please do not share in their delusion.

Answer 5

Religion is a person's personal beliefs that should be private. All religious beliefs are different. Hell and heaven are real for some and fiction for others.
The social laws that we abide are for a civilized world. They are not created by God.
If you read the Old Testament, there are many outdated, ineffectual, and morbid laws and punishments that no longer exist.
Civilization has evolved to be much more compassionate, and conscience oriented.
A person can truly be graded without religious beliefs. Religion does not necessarily make a person ethically better than another-no matter how hard they pray, or appear to be good.

Answer 6

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death if he finds truth and is afraid enough to ignore it. My friend, i have found truth and am in the way to reach it, nothing else is really important.

Answer 7

I think Einstein was very kind to still mention "man being in a poor way" when this situation seems to me more like when you punish or reward your pet for doing what you want or not. If this is the case, then it is an animal doing what it's supposed to do.

Hopefully this is not the human condition at all.

Answer 8

with regards to the 10 commandments - in general people sgould behave like that.

for example - dont steal other peoples things, or sleep with their wives etc.

people ought to behave ethically because it is the right thing to do, not because they fear punishment.

if everyone behaved like that quote suggest, the world would be a better place and there would be little need for law.

Answer 9

i think of this is actual. What Christ stood for grew to become into sturdy and he grew to become into right here for the earnings of people. lots of the folk who stick to Christianity attempt to apply the religion to justify hate and condemnation on different beings. yet any faith could be utilized as a weapon by skill of a frontrunner with undesirable morals. this is the folk interior that ought to realize that the respond is to love each and every people and help all people inspite of our ameliorations. Hate and anger make the international a dismal, gruesome place.

Answer 10

IN the beginning God made all the law es and that is suppose to be followed to this day, no they r not wrong.