On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:19:34 GMT, captdan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Goo wrote:
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>>>>> Goo wrote:
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>>>>>> pearl wrote:
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>>>>>>>> pearl wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> 'Although Albert Einstein professed atheism,
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>>>>>>>> Bull****. "God does not play dice with the universe."
>>>>>>>> -- A. Einstein
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>>>>>>> '"From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest
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>>>>>> Einstein was a Jew.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You stupid skank.
>>>>>
>>>>> No....he was an atheist, you sweet little tart.
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>>>> He was a Jew.
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>>> So what is a Jew that doesn't believe in God called?
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>> Einstein was not an atheist. He was not "a Jew that [sic] doesn't
>> believe in God."
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>According to him, he was.
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It may seem logical, in retrospect, that a combination of awe and
rebellion
made Einstein exceptional as a scientist. But what is less well known is
that
those two traits also combined to shape his spiritual journey and
determine
the nature of his faith. The rebellion part comes in at the beginning of
his life:
he rejected at first his parents' secularism and later the concepts of
religious
ritual and of a personal God who intercedes in the daily workings of the
world.
But the awe part comes in his 50s when he settled into a deism based on
what
he called the "spirit manifest in the laws of the universe" and a sincere
belief
in a "God who reveals Himself in the harmony of all that exists."
.. . .
Einstein's parents, on the other hand, were "entirely irreligious." They
did not
keep kosher or attend synagogue, and his father Hermann referred to Jewish
rituals as "ancient superstitions," according to a relative.
.. . .
Despite his parents' secularism, or perhaps because of it, Einstein rather
suddenly
developed a passionate zeal for Judaism. "He was so fervent in his
feelings that,
on his own, he observed Jewish religious strictures in every detail," his
sister recalled.
He ate no ****k, kept kosher and obeyed the strictures of the Sabbath. He
even
composed his own hymns, which he sang to himself as he walked home from
school.
.. . .
Einstein's exposure to science and math produced a sudden transformation
at age 12,
just as he would have been readying for a bar mitzvah. He suddenly gave up
Judaism.
That decision does not appear to have been drawn from Bernstein's books
because
the author made clear he saw no contradiction between science and
religion. As he
put it, "The religious inclination lies in the dim consciousness that
dwells in humans that
all nature, including the humans in it, is in no way an accidental game,
but a work of
lawfulness that there is a fundamental cause of all existence."
Einstein would later come close to these sentiments. But at the time, his
leap away from
faith was a radical one. "Through the reading of popular scientific books,
I soon reached
the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true.
The consequence
was a positively fanatic orgy of free thinking coupled with the impression
that youth is
intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a cru****ng
impression."
.. . .
Shortly after his 50th birthday, Einstein also gave a remarkable interview
in which he was
more revealing than he had ever been about his religious sensibility. It
was with George
Sylvester Viereck
.. . .
You accept the historical existence of Jesus? "Unquestionably! No one can
read the
Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality
pulsates in every
word. No myth is filled with such life."
Do you believe in God? "I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call
myself a pantheist.
The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the
position of a little
child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The
child knows
someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not
understand
the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a
mysterious order in
the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems
to me, is the
attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the
universe
marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand
these laws."
.. . .
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298,00.html
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