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Einstein View On Religion. by ValentineMary(m): 8:57pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
. . . I came—though the child of
entirely irreligious (Jewish)
parents—to a deep religiousness,
which, however, reached an
abrupt end at the age of twelve.
Through the reading of popular
scientific books I soon reached the
conviction that much in the
stories of the Bible could not be
true. The consequence was a
positively fanatic orgy of
freethinking coupled with the
impression that youth is
intentionally being deceived by
the state through lies; it was a
crushing impression. Mistrust of
every kind of authority grew out
of this experience, a skeptical
attitude toward the convictions
that were alive in any specific
social environment—an attitude
that has never again left me, even
though, later on, it has been
tempered by a better insight into
the causal connections. It is quite
clear to me that the religious
paradise of youth, which was thus
lost, was a first attempt to free
myself from the chains of the
'merely personal,' from an
existence dominated by wishes,
hopes, and primitive feelings. Out
yonder there was this huge world,
which exists independently of us
human beings and which stands
before us like a great, eternal
riddle, at least partially accessible
to our inspection and thinking.
The contemplation of this world
beckoned as a liberation, and I
soon noticed that many a man
whom I had learned to esteem and
to admire had found inner
freedom and security in its
pursuit. The mental grasp of this
extra-personal world within the
frame of our capabilities
presented itself to my mind, half
consciously, half unconsciously, as
a supreme goal. Similarly
motivated men of the present and
of the past, as well as the insights
they had achieved, were the
friends who could not be lost. The
road to this paradise was not as
comfortable and alluring as the
road to the religious paradise; but
it has shown itself reliable, and I
have never regretted having
chosen it. |
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