Re: Einstein's God

On Einstein search for God, I quote the article

from Pantheist Association of Nature --Quote

To Einstein, human feelings and longings motivated all human endeavor,
including the development of religion. He recounted three stages of
religious belief:

In the first stage, fear evoked religion, fear of hunger, sickness, wild
animals, and death. Early humans created rituals to secure the favor of
illusory beings who controlled human affairs.

In the second stage, increasing social organization led to a moral
conception of God. This familiar God of Providence provided loving guidance,
meted out deserved punishment, and offered the faithful everlasting life.
Einstein notes that both of these stages of belief have human-like concepts
of deity. He rejected both anthropomorphism and personal immortality: "I
cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a
will of the kind we experience in ourselves. Neither can I or would I want
to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death...one life is
enough for me." Much of humanity rises no higher than to the second stage of
religious belief.

Einstein described a third stage of spirituality which he called cosmic
religious feeling. "The religious geniuses of all ages have been
distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no
God conceived in man's image...it is the most important function of art and
science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive
to it."

Cosmic religious feeling entailed "rapturous amazement at the harmony of
natural law," accompanied by profound awe and wonder in contemplating the
grandeur of the universe. Such feelings led Einstein to sense "... a spirit
manifest in the laws of the universe.... My religiosity consists in a humble
admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the
little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend
of reality."

His view of an immanent spiritual force led Einstein to identify God with
Nature.

Bad boy.


"Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4352fa26$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Although born a Jew, but Einstein was not a believer
> of Judiaism....He did NOT believe in the God of
> Christianity, Islam or other religions, who
> concerns himself with the fates and actions of human
> beings.
>
> However, Einstein was a deeply religious man. He
> said of his religious belief...
> -- "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself
> in the orderly harmony of what exists,..."
> -- " My unbounded admiration for the structure of
> the universe so far as our science can reveal it ..it is
> the unbounded admiration for the structure of
> the universe so far as our science can reveal it"
> -- "A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot
> penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and
> the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive
> forms are accessible to our minds - it is this knowledge and
> this emotion that constitute true religiosity; in this sense,
> and this [sense] alone, I am a deeply religious man."
>
> Einstein had found God in Nature and the cosmos.
> (See the website... from Wikipedia below)
>
> Bad boy.
>


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