What is Albert Einstein's religion?

Question

or nonreligion....

Answer 1

Einstein was a deist. He believed in a Creator, but not a personal god.

Answer 2

"I am a deeply religious non-believer. This is a somewhat new kind of religion." -- Albert Einstein.

“Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.” -- Albert Einstein

“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism....” -- Albert Einstein

Answer 3

He was born a Jew, at one time said he was atheist, but later his statements would be called pantheist. Personally I suspect based on his writings that he was a neo-platonist meaning he believed reality was based on mathematical laws.

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]

"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]


"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism...." - Einstein

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."
[Albert Einstein, obituary in New York Times, 19 April 1955]

"The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature." Einstein

Answer 4

Originally jewish but later got into allot of trouble for saying that he refused to believe in god. However he used god as a metaphor for the laws of nature. Albert Einstein was a pantheist. Say no to jesus

Answer 5

He was born a Jew. Most of the things I have read about him would indicate he was a Theist (not to be confused with an atheist--say that 10 times fast), but nothing specific beyond that.

Answer 6

Agnostic

Answer 7

Einstein believed that something had to start this mess of mass and energy we live in. He did not believe that any God would have an image--physical or emotional--that had anything to do with mankind's insanity.

Answer 8

Man, that guy was really looking for it, wasn't he? What ever he thought it was at the time. He was a great man really, he just didn't find what he was looking for. I'm glad he will get one more chance to make things right with God.

Answer 9

He was born into a Jewish family, but held a belief in a more non-personal god. He believed in a sort of higher power.

Answer 10

He was born Jewish
He was quoted to say....."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."
He did not believe in a personal god...or the christian god.