My attitude towards religion is the same as that of Spinoza, declared Professor Albert Einstein in a letter to the “Christliche Welt” in response to the latter’s inquiry.
The inquiry was made following a report declaring that Einstein had said God’s creation of the world can be compared to an artists’s creation, Just as an artist must have a plan so the world must have been created in the spirit of the existing God.
Denying this alleged quotation, Professor Einstein declared: “I consider immortality only in the sense described by Spinoza. I consider the being and its attributes and its thinking only in Spinoza’s way but not as individual existence.”
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