Albert Einstein is an atheist?

Question

Would an atheist person could have quote the following?
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

Answer 1

I am simply amazed by the number of people who anwserd to this question, they speak like they know more about Einstein them he knew about himself. Einstein is dead, and what I have learned is that he did not believe in a God but he didn't deny the great possibility of it. that is what Einstein stated in those quotes,

Answer 2

No he was not an Atheist. He had read a lot about Hinduism and I had read a quote he had once made in Sanskrit (from Gita) when he calculated that approximately 4 times 10 to the power of 6 people were likely to have died in the nuke attacks after America nuked Japan.

Answer 3

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, responding to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein's question "Do you believe in God?" quoted in: Has Science Found God?, by Victor J Stenger

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, letter to an atheist (1954), quoted in Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas & Banesh Hoffman

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Answer 4

why should we care about this? do you think that any old viewpoint is more likely to be true because einstein had it? clearly einstein was a great physicist, but i'm not sure why anyone should think that he knew any more about god than a random person you could meet on the street. although i suppose we might wish to stop others from misrepresenting einstein's views because he's dead and can't speak for himself any longer.

Answer 5

He was a deist

"I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. [He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the breaking down of determinism.] 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. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God." - Albert Einstein 'The Human Side', 1954

Answer 6

I have a very old book with Einstein's ideas and lectures compiled shortly after his death in the 1950s. The man was/is Jewish and that never changed. He says he is Jewish and you can see Judaism in almost every word in his speeches and writings.

Answer 7

Einstein was not an atheist; few people would argue that he was.

He was certainly not a believer in a personal god though. He was more a deist than anything else.

Answer 8

Einstein was very much an atheist and unambiguosly stated so, declaiming that he did not believe in any form of personal god.

If you wish to trawl through comments he made and try to imply religious belief on his part on the basis of them then you are basically very rudely saying you will not accept his words but will manipulate them to your point of view. This is highly disingenuos - why not simply believe that he told the truth when he said he did not believe in god?

Answer 9

Don't confuse this quote mining with actual belief. Einstein clearly stated in a letter he did not believe in any god but used the term metaphorically for his study of the universe in order to better explain it to laymen.

He was a very complex man, but not religious in the believing sense. He said his religion was being in awe of the universe.

Answer 10

Einstein was definitely not an atheist. He also said he was not a pantheist or a deist. To find out Einstein's concept of God, please go to this link.
http://www.arcocarib.com/bonaire/article/albert-e-mc2-einsteins-god/