To provide a bit of clarification to the foregoing....Albert Einstein was born to into a non-religious Jewish family and as an extremely young child attended Catholic School for a couple of years; throughout his life Einstein was an observant Jew.
On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:12 AM, JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote: > Einstein was a Deist who went to Catholic School. > > One particular evening in 1929, the year he turned 50, captures Einstein's > middle-age deistic faith. He and his wife were at a dinner party in Berlin > when a guest expressed a belief in astrology. Einstein ridiculed the notion > as pure superstition. Another guest stepped in and similarly disparaged > religion. Belief in God, he insisted, was likewise a superstition. > > At this point the host tried to silence him by invoking the fact that even > Einstein harbored religious beliefs. "It isn't possible!" the skeptical guest > said, turning to Einstein to ask if he was, in fact, religious. "Yes, you can > call it that," Einstein replied calmly. "Try and penetrate with our limited > means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the > discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible > and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can > comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious." > > > > http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298-2,00.html > > > _______________________ > Phil Whitmer > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
