Albert Einstein’s Religious Views

Mr. Einstein has once said this:

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These [...] interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.

How sad…

But he also said this:

“No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.”

What I can’t understand is this: If he could feel the actual presence of Jesus, how could he miss the fact that Jesus exists? Of all myths that he ever read, why is it that it was the only “myth” full of life?

I read the Epic of Gilgamish, Greek Myths, and have read a little of Egyptian myths. Those myths are so dead, there is absolutely no feeling in it and those gods in those myths can’t do great things. Those gods aren’t good, great, and have completely no love for humans, and can even die. Everything those gods did were only for themselves, they never cared for humans, and made them for ridiculous reasons.  But Jesus, he’s ALWAYS alive, loving, caring, merciful, and reasonable.

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