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Einstein is only "Jewish" in the sense that in Judaism
people are Jewish if their mother was Jewish. It is NOT
a genetic trait, but a belief system that people carry,
so due to the fact he was not religious means he is not
Jewish.
If by atheist, you mean non-Christians you are correct.
Most were Deists, and as Dan said believed that God
could be found through science. Einstein was of Jewish
decent, but through his quest for unification wanted to
see "the mind of God".
There is a difference between non-religious and
athiest. I'm not religious, because I just haven't
found a religion I identify with. I'm not an athiest
because I believe in something; I just don't know what.
They believed in the idea of a god, but not in the same
sense that christians do. Their idea was of more of a
prevailing energy that ran through everything. The
were also just about as atheist as one could have been
during their respective time periods.
I think they mean that by studying the world around
them, they can gain a better understanding of what
their god created.
And since, at the time that a lot of these people were
existing, we didn't have such a wonderful understanding
of the natural mechanisms of the world, it was this
pursuit to understand their god that led to the amazing
discoveries that allow us now to well-reasoned
atheists, as opposed to just people who dislike the
church.
Ben Franklin...not an atheist as he believed in a
supreme being and felt the best way to serve his god
was to follow the golden rule. He didn't believe in the
whole Christianity thing.
Abraham Lincoln an atheist?
"I can understand how a man can look down upon the
earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a
man could look up into the heavens and say there is no
God." --ABRAHAM LINCOLN--
If you read about Einstein he was not religious in any
since of the word there for more of an atheist as
Richard Dawkins put it no one can be for sure there is
no god but on a scale of 1-7 I am a 6.9. I believe from
what I have read most of these men where a 6 close to
7. So yeah they are atheist to the extent of unicorns
and Zeus as well. You can debate semantics but the fact
remains none of these men where religious nor did they
have a personal god. Which is what is required to be a
theist correct me if I am wrong.
Some of these comments have merit. There is religion,
and then there is practicing religion. Non-practicing,
(secular could possibly be used here) people aren't
necessarily atheistic. Atheism is in itself a set of
beliefs. Some people confuse being atheistic with
being agnostic, so that might also come into play. As
for believing in God through science, I think that's
just not phrased as well as it might have been. I
think the idea is that they believed that science
wasn't going against religion, as was frequently
considered to be the case.
if im not mistaken, washington and franklin were
masons, and if dan brown is correct, than to be a mason
you must believe in a higher power... so therefore, not
they are not atheists
Being an atheist has nothing to do with going to
church, but only whether or not you believe there's a
God. Most of the people in that picture did believe
there was a God.
What is it about liberals that makes them such rabid
militant atheists? Denied the comfort of the promise of
more than this existence, you can't rest until you've
robbed others of it as well? Give it a rest, ok? Stalin
and Hitler were atheists, Gacy and Bundy were atheists,
so what? What does it prove?
If you *must* crusade, grow a pair and take on the
Scientologists. Or be like this atheist, and MYOB.
Einstein believed God existed and could be proven
through science, and that the fact that the universe
was so balanced and complex reflected Gods ultimate
design.
How very sad. Could someone try any harder to get
attention for their side of an argument? Einstein
BELIEVED in a god HENCE he is not an atheist, moron.
I'll stop there and won't even comment on any of the
others. Whoever made this picture needs to get
themselves an education or get the fuck out of the
kitchen.
Most intellectuals are agnostic since agnosticism is
the intellectual version of atheism. I know Carl Sagan
was agnostic, if he wasn't Contact would make very
little sense.
