I’m having trouble finding his “God letter” in pdf. I’ve read it before. He very clearly speaks against organized religion and dogma. However, he maintains that he himself is agnostic. This is an article about the letter, but it doesn’t contain a transcript.
He said he believed in “Spinoza’s God” – referring to Baruch Spinoza, a 17th-century Dutch thinker – “who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind”.
On another occasion, he criticised “fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics”.
He took offense to being labeled as an atheist. Not because of his Jewish roots, but because he believed that there was a possibility of a divine creator. He labeled atheists to be just as arrogant as religious zealots for their absolutist views.
Ah okay, we’re on the same page now - you were referring to their last bit, not necessarily the first when speaking of Einstein. That lines up with what I knew about his beliefs
I agree with you. For what it’s worth, so did Einstein.
Source?
I’m having trouble finding his “God letter” in pdf. I’ve read it before. He very clearly speaks against organized religion and dogma. However, he maintains that he himself is agnostic. This is an article about the letter, but it doesn’t contain a transcript.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/04/physicist-albert-einstein-god-letter-reflecting-on-religion-up-for-auction-christies
He took offense to being labeled as an atheist. Not because of his Jewish roots, but because he believed that there was a possibility of a divine creator. He labeled atheists to be just as arrogant as religious zealots for their absolutist views.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_philosophical_views_of_Albert_Einstein#:~:text=We have to admire in,is that of an agnostic.
Edit: Found it.
https://lettersofnote.com/2009/10/07/the-word-god-is-the-product-of-human-weakness/
Ah okay, we’re on the same page now - you were referring to their last bit, not necessarily the first when speaking of Einstein. That lines up with what I knew about his beliefs