#Einstein Letter on #Religion and God to Be Auctioned on eBay - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/einstein-letter-calling-biblical-stories-pretty-childish-to-be-auctioned-on-ebay/263334
The clearest of those here is Einstein’s critique of religion as not sophisticated enough to render the universe as Einstein understood it. This is something he said, or at least hinted at, many times, such as when he wrote to a U.S. Navy ensign that he considered a father-figure-like understanding of God to be a consequence of “childish analogies.” Religion, Einstein believed, made a caricature of God.
That’s not, however, because Einstein rejected the notion of God, but because he took the idea of God very seriously, elevating it above a religious conception to a mathematical one. To Einstein, the elegance of the physics guiding the universe were God’s handiwork, the mark not of a humanlike being that maintains control over the world, but of a divine beauty in nature’s laws.