Was Albert Einstein an atheist?

Answer 1

No, he was more of a deist.

Answer 2

People who point to the "Dice" quote obviously have no clue what the context of that quote was.

Here's a great page that explains his stance in detail:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/arguments.html#einstein

"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

Answer 3

Ah Bad Squirrel posted the info I was about to add, although our interpretation are quite different. Of course I'm basing mine on having read a great deal about him, as well as some fascinating documentaries and hearing what he had to say. Although born into the Jewish faith, later in life he spoke and wrote of how he felt there is far more to the universe than we here can comprehend.

So I think of him as more spiritual than relgious. I think he had faith, and enough intelligence to know how little we know and not tie into anything conventional. But he definately believed in more, as proven by that posted quote and many others. I looked into this once when I heard he was a spiritualist. After reading many quotes (gazillions on line, just Google) what I found is a great many web sites each filled with quotes that they felt proved their point of whatever side they wanted him to be on. But if you read them all, and mostly the general quotes of his, you see someone who is a free thinker, who gave up standard religion yet kept faith in more than we here believe. All other sites are either quotes taken out of context or at a questioning part of his life.

I also feel that just because one does not embrance a single Religion, that does not make him an athiest. He felt there was more and was waiting to see what. If that doesn't show faith I don't know what does.

Answer 4

Generally all scientists appear to be atheists for the ignorant theists .Their idea o God is different from those of ordinary men.because they know he truth of life and cosmos . Thier belief in/god much like that in the Bhagavad -gita .Einstein is reportd to have commented that when he read Bhagavad -gita and reflected on the creation of the universe , everything else seemed superfluous .

Answer 5

I didn't believe in a personal God. So, basically, yes.

"My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality."
--Albert Einstein.

Answer 6

Not an atheist. To me he seemed to believe in a higher power but not the traditional religious notion of a god.
Try these quotes of his:

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.

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.

Answer 7

I know all that there is to know about this guy. I like him a lot and always did!
Even though he didn't always act like it, I really think that he didn't just know God but put way more faith in Him when pushed came to shove than he did in science.
He didn't have to die when he did as the doctors were willing to give him the necessary operation that would have prolonged his life by many more years but he chose to go as I'm sure he knew about the resurrection... The man wasn't perfect but he did have a brain!!! He knew all that he could do but knew that the one who saw to it that the periodic table was as perfect as the universe he lived in was undeniable to him of the evidence of a supreme creator and it was never his intention to invent nuclear energy for destructive purposes it turned out to be... and they all knew better than to include him in their evil concoctions! to use his discoveries to blow the earth up!

Answer 8

He was a Jewish Pantheist. When he said he believes in "Spinoza's God", he meant that he concurred with Spinoza when he said that "nature" is just another word for "God". The two concepts are synonymous to them. God is the natural world, the physical universe, the forces of physics, etc.

Answer 9

*sigh* Bad Squirrel thinks he's Einstein again...

who left the paint under the tree again?
lol

Answer 10

Deist

Answer 11

No. He was Jewish
He was even asked to be the first president of Israel (in 1948), but he refused. He was not interested in politics.