Belief in God ‘childish,’ Jews not chosen people: Einstein letter


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The father of relativity, whose previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made the comments in response to a philosopher in 1954.

As a Jew himself, Einstein said he had a great affinity with Jewish people but said they “have no different quality for me than all other people”.

“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.

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One Response to “Belief in God ‘childish,’ Jews not chosen people: Einstein letter”

  1. MuscleDaddy Says:

    “As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power…”

    Wow - that’s heavy.

    They are uncorrupted, but only by virtue of lacking any sort of corrupting power.

    Kind of makes you wonder who comes out better in that scenario…

    - MuscleDaddy

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