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- DragonzKin, on 02/27/2009, -71/+384Religion easily has the greatest ***** story ever told. Think about it, religion has actually convinced people that there's an INVISIBLE MAN...LIVING IN THE SKY...who watches every thing you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten special things that he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry for ever and ever 'til the end of time...but he loves you. And he NEEDS MONEY!!
-- The late, the great, George Carlin. - chewbacca77, on 02/27/2009, -62/+267According to the Bible, God does love unconditionally. However, love doesn't rule out punishment. Sort of like a parent's relationship - parents can punish the children that they love.
- joeboy70, on 02/27/2009, -48/+252So true. If God loves you, surely he should love you unconditionally and not want to mess you up, no matter what you've done.
- FI5HERMAN, on 02/27/2009, -34/+186Einstein...just like all of us is entitled to his opinion & beliefs !!!
- decyx, on 02/27/2009, -13/+158I have nothing against god; it's his followers that I'm not too fond of.
- ExodusD, on 02/27/2009, -65/+172Religion is spiritual enslavement, a fairy-tale created for social control. "An opiate of the masses."
- xCIone, on 04/15/2009, -45/+148God loves Albert Einstein
- TheManikin, on 02/27/2009, -37/+134"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-Albert Einstein
I've always thought that is one of the greatest quotes around. - ttsupra26, on 02/27/2009, -47/+131Einstein's REAL view on G-D:
# I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
# Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
# My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
# The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
# Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
# The scientists' religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
# There is no logical way to the discovery of elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
# The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
# The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science.
# We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
# Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
# When the solution is simple, God is answering.
# God does not play dice with the universe.
# God is subtle but he is not malicious.
# A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
# Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
# The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
# Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
# Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
# The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
# The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
# What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
# The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.
# The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
# True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
# Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. - pawperso, on 02/27/2009, -10/+94But also one of the most misquoted.
- dpknc84, on 02/27/2009, -7/+90"When you do things right people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
Futurama, Episode: Godfellas, (2002) - derpaderp, on 02/27/2009, -16/+93I myself belive that ethics/morals have influenced religion, not the other way around. Morals would have been around anyways, religion tries to enforce this with a reward/punishment system. The sad thing is that it is a great concept, but it has its flaws. Religion is part of the reason we are still stuck where we are at now as humanity, and even though it would be a great thing if it worked, it will never work because we are still advancing and learning as we go along things that are contrary to religion. Some day I think people will realise that they don't need religion to do good, and to have a good life. Just live it out while you can, life is short, and basing your decisions on some ***** they tried to make work 1000 years ago wont cut it in todays world. Religion is flawed, it would be great if it could have changed the world and made it more peaceful but it has in turn made it a worse place. I live my life morally, for the most part, but as long as I aint hurting anybody, I'm going to keep on doing what I am.
- javiero, on 02/27/2009, -10/+84He needed a comb so bad
- leberumen, on 02/27/2009, -47/+109MUST read: The God Delusion.
Lots of quotes like this one.
=] - NamesTwister, on 02/27/2009, -10/+71Well said Albert, well said...
- unusualbob, on 02/27/2009, -12/+73He has touched him with his noodly appendage
- zomgwaffles, on 02/27/2009, -11/+68"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism" ~ Einstein
- derbloodlust, on 02/27/2009, -2/+50***** amen to that... I (unfortunately) am part of a very religious family here in Texas.. my parents and grandmother attend weekly Bible studies, go to church and watch TBN and crap like that. That doesn't bother me at all, they can do whatever they please. The problem is that practically every chance they get, they play the guilt-trip game with me. My father has the most aggressive form of brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme), and they are constantly saying things to me like,"I'm only alive today because of God, I just wish you would love God, that's my biggest wish," and, "am I ever going to see you baptised?" What the hell do I say to that??? All I can say is, "please, you can't force such things on others." They corner me on the subject, grill me about it, and they make it a huge deal. It really sucks to know it disappoints them, but I refuse to give in just to appease them. That's just lying to them and to myself.
In the end, all it does is pushes me further away from them and Christianity. - inactive, on 02/27/2009, -26/+72the bible must've missed that point too.
- inactive, on 02/27/2009, -3/+49And for the ironic one:
"In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views." - Todynho, on 02/27/2009, -44/+77I heard this God fellow is a real *****.
- pirategonzo, on 02/27/2009, -3/+33Isn't it a bit narrow-minded to be calling this book, "one of the most narrow-minded, arrogant books ever written"?
- MammasMilk, on 02/27/2009, -7/+37Read your Bible, God equals a lot of horrible things which are the opposite of love.
Understanding "God" doesn't make it real either, I understand unicorns, vampires and Thor, but they are not real.
Love = Love, you don't need a god to have love. Neither can you define or refines a god into existence. - inactive, on 02/27/2009, -3/+31Truly - if there were a God, he would reveal himself to us directly, not rely on corrupt clergy who could easily warp and distort whatever message he has for us. Surely God of all people would understand the dangers of giving us messages through the most convoluted version of the telephone game ever conceived.
- spdorsey, on 02/27/2009, -6/+34apackofmonkeys :
You have a funny name for a religious zealot. - JesusTeaseUs, on 02/27/2009, -3/+31I don't think he uses 'religious' in the sense you mean him to.
"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. (Albert Einstein, 1954)" - inactive, on 02/27/2009, -4/+30agnosticism is the path of intellectual humility when it comes to the subject of the existence of a deity. professing certainty on such issues is arrogance, and of the unfounded variety, which is the worst.
- Tarantulus, on 02/27/2009, -13/+37have you read the old testament?! god is a horrible, spiteful, vindictive being
- wookee88, on 02/27/2009, -0/+24So what are the facts that he's missing? And what are the main points of the Bible? If you're going to make accusations towards Einstein(or anyone), at least make your accusation clear.
- m3th0dm4n, on 02/27/2009, -14/+38God is a metaphor for nature.
- PoopOnPaul, on 02/27/2009, -1/+24Try looking at it this way (all beliefs or non-beliefs aside):
If God exists and is just and you live your life well, you should be good, regardless of your beliefs. If God exists and is unjust, then he might punish you if you don't believe, but since he's unjust you're probably ***** anyway. If God doesn't exist, living your life well is it's own reward.
The bottom line is live your life well. I'll leave it up to you to determine exactly what that means. - blindhammer, on 02/27/2009, -5/+27No, his real view is this:
"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."
Taken from his letter written on January 3, 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind
This actually postdates the quote in this digg article by 4 years. - dizzythegreat, on 02/27/2009, -4/+26You can better your community (more effectively, I'd argue) without any supernatural sky daddy.
Read the bible. It has countless examples where the god character has to be either a.) senile/incompetent or b.) evil, bloodthirsty, vindictive, and viciously sectarian. - Delphium226, on 02/27/2009, -11/+32If God loves us unconditionally, why doesn't he just do himself and all of us a favour and kill Satan off?
- noumuon, on 02/27/2009, -2/+23it's a joke...
- patriamus, on 02/27/2009, -3/+23i want to **** you up so many times.
I came here to **** that *******. - xutopia, on 02/27/2009, -11/+31Who the ***** are you to state that God's love is unconditional?
The problem with all the religious people is that they pull these "facts" out of their asses. What evidence do you have for an all loving God? - Kosh, on 02/27/2009, -1/+20spdorsey and LJ are both partially right according to most christian views. The theory is that sin to us isn't subjective, but it's not something we should judge each other of, partially because we cannot know what is in other people's hearts, and partially because (mostly) we weren't the ones offended. GOD on the other hand would be able to know what is in people's hearts and would be offended by every sin (being the creator) so he would be the only "person" capable of judging people. That's my understanding of the idea anyway.
- pawperso, on 02/27/2009, -20/+39@ LJU1492 - Burried for pathetically cherry picking parts of the bible to back up your point while completely ignoring the other parts that show the exact opposite.
- JesusTeaseUs, on 02/27/2009, -1/+20I really don't understand how anyone can think Dawkins is anything other than a polite, kind, English scholar.
I think alot of this perceived ***** comes from his unwillingness to recognize the taboo of discussing religion. He merely asserts his own observations with clarity.
/shrugs - kolop1, on 02/27/2009, -16/+35You are a moron theentropy88.
- wonkavsn, on 02/27/2009, -9/+27No really, agree with him about there being a god or not, the (new testament) bible's core message is that no one is good enough to be saved, but God has provided you with a means of salvation anyway.
In that way, fear of punishment is removed.
Having said that, I will ask you all to ignore the portions where people are being punished. - inactive, on 02/27/2009, -4/+22I thought he couldn't get any worse than the old testament...slavery, genocide, warmongering...then i read the sequel, and it's got human sacrifice!
- Tripacer9999, on 02/27/2009, -1/+19The bible has facts?!
BHAHHAHAAHAAH - Samueul, on 02/27/2009, -1/+18I'd argue that putting too much faith in a mythical being has caused us to run this planet into the ground. We should probably start taking ourselves to task instead of waiting for god to solve our problems...
- MisterEX, on 02/27/2009, -19/+36You are all missing one very important factor. According to the Bible, God IS LOVE.
God is incapable of being anything, but love. God is infallible. Man is SINFUL and sin is the absence of God. So in a way, God is not punishing us, but rather we are punishing ourselves by separating ourselves from God. Without God, there is no love. - BushidoReverend, on 02/27/2009, -12/+29Watch out Diggers,
The Biblethumpers have come out.
Quick, Hide the bong! - mattwalton56, on 02/27/2009, -1/+18I want to digg you up so many times.
I came here to post that comment. - burningmanstan, on 02/27/2009, -1/+17Einstein addresses this exact question in writing several times later in life.
"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." -Einstein
Case closed, he's so damn smart that he even has written statements denouncing the campaign to claim he is religious. - Zervaman, on 02/27/2009, -5/+20"About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church. As long as I can remember, I have resented mass indocrination. I do not believe in the fear of life, in the fear of death, in blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws."
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