Einstein, Spinoza, and God
The link between man and god is FAITH.
nice story! :)
Dear deity worshiping reblogger. Snopes. 2004. http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp
^ plus this comment:
Are you sure everyone is hating on your god? Einstein was an extremely secular Jew, and an atheist. Even if it were a correct attribution, you’d still have the wrong god.
Einstein’s belief in some sort of deity is unknown but he surely wasn’t a theist. Some say deist. In any case, yes, it would be the wrong god (a different god, wrong to the Christian) if there was any god in his mind.
Although, the story is totally bogus anyway.
I have a detailed post about Einstein’s beliefs on my blog:
http://iconoclasm2000.blogspot.com/2011/03/einstein-spinoza-and-god.html
I think it makes a pretty good case that he believed in a Spinozian God at best, stopping short of even pantheism.
Spinoza believed God exists philosophically and that God was abstract and impersonal, viewing God and Nature as two names for the same reality [Deus sive Natura]
And even this level of belief is questionable in his later years as I detail in my blog entry.