2007-07-24 07:39:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i meant...atheist?
2007-07-24 07:45:16 · update #1
Let's let Uncle Albert speak for himself:
"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."
"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism."
"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."
2007-07-24 07:56:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm not sure exactly what an "Atheisit" is. I'm assuming you mean ATHEIST, so I will say that, no, he wasn't an atheist. However, he didn't believe in a personal god, so he would have been more like a deist. I think he also had pantheistic views as well.
2007-07-24 07:43:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Deist. That was the 'atheist' of the day. Religion had it wrong but they had never had an answer to what started the universe as we know it so that still got a 'goddidit'
He did say god was in everything so the Pantheist is the better answer.
2007-07-24 07:43:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if he considered himself an atheist. I doubt he was the kind of guy who pinned such labels on himself. But here is a quote that gives an idea of his thoughts:
"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
2007-07-24 07:49:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
He was a diest. A diest is a person that believes there is a higher power (not exactly a higher being) that helped created the universe, but this higher power is not to be worshipped (spelling, sorry).
2007-07-24 07:46:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I can tell you for sure that "LiLHuDNaLL18" doesn't know the answer, as this question was asked some months ago. I nearly bust a gut chuckling. The link below goes to that question.
2007-08-01 04:53:30 · answer #6 · answered by Boris Bumpley 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein was a pantheist.
2007-07-24 07:44:03 · answer #7 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope. He was agnostic, or perhaps a deist. He just didn't believe in a "personal" God.
2007-07-24 07:46:05 · answer #8 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
More like a Pantheist.
2007-07-24 07:44:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i do not think so, with his iq he would know that some kind of being far superior had to exist somewhere
2007-08-01 07:01:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋