What type of God did Einstein believe?
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Originally Posted by Albert 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.
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Originally Posted by Albert Einstein
In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.
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Originally Posted by Albert Einstein
I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings."
Spinoza’s God is not the one of the bible, Spinoza’s God was not a personal God.
A further quotation on the subject of Spinoza's God follows. This material comes from G. S. Viereck, Glimpses of the Great.
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Originally Posted by Albert Einstein
I can't answer with a simple yes or no. I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. 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 a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things.
Remember this was in an interview. Skeptics say that the part that I underlined was not actually Albert Einstein at all. The only problem with that is everything else seems to be genuine like when he talks about playing the role of a little kid in a library it seems to be authentic Einstein. The end of the quote where he praises Spinoza for his work on body and soul also seems to be genuine Einstein.
Just something to think about.
I have never seen these quotes before. I found them interesting so i thought i would share.