The word Einstein is synonymous with genius. He truly changed physics and without his help we would still be somewhat backward in all of our current technology
This is what he said about religion
Written a year before the legendary physicist died in 1955, his name synonymous with genius, Einstein writes in German from Princeton, New Jersey to German philosopher Eric Gutkind.
“The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends,” writes the physicist, best known for his theory of relativity.
“No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this.” The one-and-a-half-page letter will go on sale on December 4, estimated by Christie’s to fetch between $1 million and $1.5 million.
The letter was previously offered at auction in 2008, bought by a private collector for $4,04,000, Christie’s said.
“It is one of the definitive statements in the religion vs science debate,” says Peter Klarnet, senior specialist in books and manuscripts at the auction house.
The son of secular Ashkenazi Jews and forced to flee Germany after Adolf Hitler took power, Einstein did not exclude Judaism from his critique. “For me the unadulterated Jewish religion is, like all other religions, an incarnation of primitive superstition,” he writes to Gutkind.
“And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong, and in whose mentality I feel profoundly anchored, still for me does not have any different kind of dignity from all other people.
“As far as my experience goes, they are in fact no better than other human groups, even if they are protected from the worst excesses by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot perceive anything ‘chosen’ about them.”
Ah, so I the first half of the 20 century from 1901 to 1950, Einstein was there He changed the world. But, but- so was Yogananda. So was Yukteshwar. And Lahiri mahashay. And Aurobindo and Raman Maharshi. There were even other greater beings also like Neem Karoli Maharaj, Yogendra vigyani ( guru of Vihnutirthiji maharaj)
Even other unknown people of such high caliber that the world cannot know if them like Mohangiri Maharaj, Karsangiri Maharaj Kevalgiri Maharaj, and his extra ordinary disciples
They all said the opposite to what Einstein said. So where do we stand?
Is religion just make belief. Primitive. Even if you take a subtle interpretation of the stories like the story of David and Goliath or of Prahlad?
Even the subtle interpretation was denied by Einstein.
Ah, so much joy. What a drama! The truth is where science cannot reach where all Laws of science are vanquished that where those great saints operate
Think carefully. Where do you stand?
Bhavin