"There are people who say there is no God, but what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views."
2007-04-10 08:16:33 · 19 answers · asked by wassupmang 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"What separates me from so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos"
2007-04-10 08:20:01 · update #1
I believe the answer is HUMILITY
2007-04-10 08:20:43 · update #2
Perhaps the fact that Einstein was an agnostic.
2007-04-10 08:18:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
I believe the answer is Humility, too.
Something it seems, you are sadly lacking in, unless I have misread your rather crude attempts to hijack Einstein (the horrendously abridged version) for your own purposes.
I'm still ruminating over what those purposes might actually be, as the best explanation I can come up with is that either you are very good at countering your own argument or very bad at 'using' a scientist as some form or critical tool to disprove atheism.
Which leads me to think, how does one disprove something which is not a belief? By the same methods one would disprove the existence of You Know Who?
2007-04-10 15:44:21 · answer #2 · answered by Orac 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"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]
From a Time magazine article:
"The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of religion and of science lies in this concept of a personal God," he argued. "Scientists aim to uncover the immutable laws that govern reality, and in doing so they must reject the notion that divine will, or for that matter human will, plays a role that would violate this cosmic causality".
The previous quote tosses out the entire Bible, from his perspective.
2007-04-10 15:20:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Ever read "David Copperfield"? Yes, believe it or not, before he was a Jesus impersonator he was a book. Now, in that you will find a character called Uriah Heep, a thoroughly objectionable little man who claimed he did everything he did because he was so 'umble. Sorry, 'UMBLE.
If there's one thing I find more unpalatable than false humility it's people who put themselves up as "educated" and then don't bother doing a simple spell check.
2007-04-10 15:32:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I respect Einstein. He knew Someone greater than himself must have existed, for him to escape Auschvitz and then have the knowledge to piece together the Manhattan Project, aka the Atomic Bomb, which ended the war. Humility is a great thing, and it is the beginning of one's search for God. Without humility, no one can see God.
2007-04-10 15:23:05 · answer #5 · answered by Lisa 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
"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."
"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."
"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."
2007-04-10 15:59:49 · answer #6 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"I am a deeply religious non-believer. This is a somewhat new kind of religion." -- Albert Einstein.
A religion I share with him as a non-theist.
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To the person who mentioned Spinoza's God... Spinoza's God is an intrinsically atheistic concept.
It is the recognition of the harmony and awe of the sheer magnitude of purely natural law and a rejection of the supernatural.
2007-04-10 15:21:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Einstein believed in Spinoza's god. He wasn't an atheist.
2007-04-10 15:19:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Who is Eistein ? I have never heard of him before. Should I have ?
2007-04-10 15:22:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found that 1st quote.
Einstein didn't believe in a personal god.
I'm sure Einstein would be just as upset at Christians, when they cliam he believed in god as if he believed in there god.
2007-04-10 15:19:22 · answer #10 · answered by lilith 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
its not black and white
there is more to it than
atheist vs. christian
einstein did not believe in a god
that interfered in the affairs of men
he didn't even believe in free will
2007-04-10 15:21:18 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋