Reply #61: Another quote from Einstein [View All]

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"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

Overstated though that post was about religion being for the weak, it clearly had not a thing to do with someone like Einstein who has "unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it" as the closest thing to what might loosely be called religion.

Let's try rephrasing dysfunctional press's post in those terms:

Unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it is "nutty". It is a place of refuge for the weak-minded.

So, do you really think what dysfunctional press said can really be construed to have meant THAT in addition to a general condemnation of religion, making Einstein a good counter example to that?

Get real.