Albert Einstein, Baruch Spinoza and Carl Sagan were Pantheists ….
In a letter written to Eduard Büsching (25 October 1929), after Büsching sent Albert Einstein a copy of his book Es gibt keinen Gott ("There is no God"), Einstein wrote, "We followers of Spinoza see our God in the wonderful order and lawfulness of all that exists and in its soul as it reveals itself in man and animal."
According to Einstein, the book only dealt with the concept of a personal god and not the impersonal God of pantheism.
In a letter written in 1954 to philosopher Eric Gutkind, Einstein wrote "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses."
In another letter written in 1954 he wrote "I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."
In Ideas And Opinions, published a year before his death, Einstein stated his precise conception of the word God:
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality and intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order. [...] This firm belief, a belief bound up with a deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God. In common parlance this may be described as "pantheistic" (per Spinoza).
We often get confused with Atheists, Hindu Non Dualists, Gnostics and Mystics....
Crikey, I world have to look half of them up. I do know roughly what a pantheist and a Hindu is. Not bad going!
Albert Einstein, Baruch Spinoza and Carl Sagan were Pantheists ….
According to Einstein, the book only dealt with the concept of a personal god and not the impersonal God of pantheism.
In a letter written in 1954 to philosopher Eric Gutkind, Einstein wrote "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses."
In another letter written in 1954 he wrote "I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."
In Ideas And Opinions, published a year before his death, Einstein stated his precise conception of the word God:
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism
My respect for Einstein grows even more! I do like the idea.
It’s like the guy was a Genius.
Lol, yes he very much was