Portrait Of The Sleep Deprived

Let's be freaks...: ...I didn't even pick up on this

jonathandiener:

Albert Einstein is in no way Christian haha.

He’s one of the most famous men in Jewish history. He would never say “Yes, I’m Christian”

I could post something like G-O-D spelled backwards is D-O-G, so maybe DOGS really are what we should believe in! If it’s convincing and…

Actually, this whole thing is bunk.  Einstein’s parents were Jewish but non-practising, and he was quoted as saying:

“You may call me an agnostic… I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being”

And:

“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. 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.”

And:

“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”

As for the story, it’s completely made up.  Ignoring the fact that Einstein would never have tried to parallel science and religion, the science is wrong anyway.  The basic set-up has been around for generations because people have always tried to prove that religion is “better” than science and vice versa; Einstein’s name is just being put into it to try and give it some gravitas.

Not that any of that matters in the slightest.  What you believe is entirely up to you, as is how you go about expressing it.  It’s called “faith” - if you need validation of your beliefs from other people, you’re kinda missing the point.  And the science/religion thing is a pointless circular argument, as god/God/whatever is almost by definition impossible to prove - if something is omniscient, then by definition it is in control of the outcome of any experiment trying to prove it’s existence, and therefore the results are invalid (a famous example is the Omphalos Hypothesis or Last Thursdayism).

What Einstein thought about God/god/dogs was of no relevance to anyone but him, and I’m pretty sure he’s not all that fussed any more…

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