Why do many christians try to claim that Einstein was a devout believer in god when he said the following.....

Question

"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", edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press]

Answer 1

*Churches like to try and claim scientist like Einstien studied science and became believers. Some scients may, I repeat may have decided that there could be a creator, but that is a far cry from believing in a God and the bible..

I am a former Christian and now am pagan and although I believe life and everything was created, I don't have a clue as to exactly how it happened. I believe religion and that includes all religions including Christianity is man's attempt to explain that which cannot be explained.

My study of the bible is what changed my belief. If the one God exists and it is very important that we believe the right thing, then I think he would have chosen a better way to make the bible available to us without using a pagan emperor to chose certain men during the council of Nicea and letting those men decide which books to include in the bible and whether they are inspired of God. It is the council of Nicea that developed certain beliefs that we must believe and anything beyond that is heresy.

I believe an intelligent God would have made it clear which books to include without having men to decide that.*

Answer 2

Am going to read that, just for the sake of reading it.
# The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery-- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds -- it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. [Albert Einstein,The World as I See It]

Answer 3

There are several Einstein quotes in which he appears to be recognizing the existence or greatness of a God. It could then be reasonable for someone to take that as his being a Believer in God.

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details." ~Albert Einstein

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice." ~Albert Einstein

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."~Albert Einstein

"A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - 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." ~Albert Einstein

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

Answer 4

Einstein was jewish so i do not see how any christian can claim credit for anything he said or did. most jews are religious.
Atheists jews are rare. Like the joke:
A jew once said " I am an atheist and my father was an atheist and my grandfather,and , god willing, my son will be one too."

Answer 5

However Einstein also said things like;

"even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other" there are "strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies"... "science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind ...a legitimate conflict between science and religion cannot exist."

grace2u

Answer 6

Albert Einstein
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.

Albert Einstein
God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Answer 7

The same reason they claim Jefferson was.

"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
--Thomas Jefferson

Answer 8

I have never heard Christians make any assertions about Einstein's beliefs. He was raised as a Jew and was invited to be Israel's first prime minister. He turned it down.

Answer 9

DR Schmoo and Gman... good intelligent answers irrefutable arguments Put Einstein in his place. Good for you. Bravo.

Answer 10

I guess he wasn't a Jew that had to escape the holocaust either then, huh?