Was Einstein An Atheist?

[psychoslice]

Albert Einstein: It is a Lie that I Believe in a Personal God

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.

- Albert Einstein, letter to an atheist (1954), quoted in Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas & Banesh Hoffman

Well he did say you can call him an agnostic:

1). a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god

Source: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agnostic

[Kaere]

Why worry about what someone else thinks or thought... how do his beliefs affect you? That's an awful lot of responsibility and power to give to someone else.

[sandalwood]

he is definitely not an atheist. he believes that science and religion are necessary to have together. also he would meditate, which is when he would come up with his best findings

[psychoslice]

He was an intelligent man, so he must have been an atheist, well at least someone who didn't believe in a personal god.

Einstein on Buddhism:

“Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual; and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.

“If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.

“A human being is 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 for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in all its beauty.

[Morpheus]

Pertaining to Science, and Faith.
An example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG4dRUOWwtg

There is much more to life and reality than the organic, and, material/physical universe.

[desert rat]

Einstein may of scene God about the same way I do . Not a personal God , but more consciousness , and energy . That we are all part of that being we call God .