Reply #15: Psa 122:6 [View All]

[tomcalab]

My wife and I pray daily for the peace of Jerusalem, and believe that the existence of Israel is essential to the world.

Through "sparknotes" we found even more reason for a logical person to support the existence of Israel:

"Another aspect of Einstein's religious life was his relationship to the Jewish people. Although he did not observe Jewish traditions, Einstein appreciated the love of truth and justice that he saw as constituting the core of Judaism. He claimed that Jews have been united throughout the centuries by a reverence for truth, a democratic ideal of social justice, and a desire for personal independence. In Einstein's view, the greatest Jews, including Moses, Spinoza, and Marx, were those who sacrificed themselves for these ideals. Above all, Einstein believed that Judaism involves a strong sense of the sanctity of life and a rejection of all superstition. He contended that the creation of a Jewish state would preserve these values for the world. Einstein thus had a cultural and intellectual vision for Israel, rather than a political one. The greatest danger posed by anti-Semitism, he believed, was the threat it posed to the survival of Jewish ideals; thus Israel must serve as a region sheltered from Europe's deep-seated anti-Semitism, must constitute a seat of modern intellectual life and a spiritual center for the Jews."

http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/einstein/section11.rhtml

Is this "Spinoza" that Einstein reveres, any relation of yours?

Thank you for your post, and your commentary.