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To: JCEccles; PatrickHenry
Brilliant physicist, amateurish theologian.

Einstein never claimed to be a theologian. Ah, but aren't we all of necessity "amateurish" theologians in our own way?

Every human comes at least once to a place where we consider if there is not Something Bigger out there. Were this not so; if we could not grasp anything larger than our own needs, I doubt we would qualify as "conscious" entities.

Thus each of us determines our own theology - be it Paganism, Pantheism, Christianity, Atheism, Agnosticism, etc., etc,. And the spectrum of adherence to the tenets of each faith is equally as broad, and changes over the course of one's lifetime.

Quote-mining in order to prove or disprove Einstein's religious convictions is a futile endeavor...for none of us were privy to his conscious thoughts as he slipped from this life. I am however, immensely satisfied that Einstein, for all his brains, still retained a sense of wonder, awe, and mystery about the Universe.

60 posted on 09/10/2005 11:47:37 AM PDT by Aracelis
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To: Aracelis
VERY well said!

"My father woke me late one October night in 1957, bundled me up and brought me out to our front porch."

Same thing happened to me except it was a meteor that lit up the whole sky in a yellow glow and cast shadows inside our house.

:-)

65 posted on 09/10/2005 12:00:53 PM PDT by FireTrack
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