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Originally Posted by Lucky
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He said he didn't believe in a personal God. That is buddy Jesus, not a grand architect.
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I will concede there are many of Einstein's quotes that deal with the idea of "a grand architect." e.g. "I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details." But he would go back and forth in the terms of there being a higher power and would refer to such things in a very ambiguous manner. He mostly related to agnosticism and being such, he was a clear opponent to positive atheism which I believe is the main point of bring Franklin and Einstein into this little quarrel.
I digress, Einstein was most certainly an agnostic.
"I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." -Dat big E.