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Comment on Atheism - Good Enough For These Idiots (2008-07-31 10:07:58)
Crap, I messed up the bolding.. Oh well.
Comment on Atheism - Good Enough For These Idiots (2008-07-31 10:07:10)
@Natedog: Your selection of quotes seem to imply that Einstein was a theist... He was actually more of a pantheist (universe = god, not a god/gods creating anything) than anything, which is very different from what most people think about when they think about religion. Quotes: "The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. [b]It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.[/b] Covering both the natural and the spiritual, [b]it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity.[/b] Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism." "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I [b]do not believe in a personal God[/b] and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. [b]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.[/b]" respect for the sanctity of life and working toward the liberty and prosperity of every man, for simply refusing to believe that God's will can be pinned down to anything as mundane, memetic, misunderstandable, and fallible as a book, then to hell I shall go." - Anonymous "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." - Albert Einstein "[b]I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. [/b]I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."