![]() Albert Einstein explicitly shared the pantheism of Spinoza, of whose views The Hutchinson Softback Encyclopedia, 1996, writes: ‘Mind and matter are two modes of an infinite substance that called God or Nature, good and evil being relative.’ Like New Age and Eastern thought, this is a ‘monistic’ belief, which explicitly denies a Creator in the normal meaning of the word, i.e. It means that ‘God’ just becomes another word for ‘everything’ and loses any real meaning-saying that everything is ‘zinquth’ is just as meaningful. Pantheists believe that everything is God. Tertiary studies, fatherhood and marriage Einstein’s belief in ‘the divinity of nature’ His application for Swiss citizenship was approved February 21, 1900. On Januhe became a stateless person at the age of 16. … 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 … an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.’ 4Īlbert’s anti-authoritarianism, and probably also his desire to escape compulsory military service at age 17, led him to renounce his German citizenship. 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. Concerning this time in his life, Albert later wrote, ‘Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. 4įrom age 12 Albert read popular books on science, taught himself algebra, geometry and calculus, and studied Immanuel Kant’s anti-theistic Critique of Pure Reason. His views on religion and ‘God’ were evolutionary and pantheistic.Īt age 11 he went through an intense religious phase during which he ate no pork and composed songs to God, which he sang to himself on the way to school. He had no concept of the God of the Bible or trust in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour. He grew up with an aversion to discipline, and a life-long suspicion of all authority.Īlbert Einstein was not a Christian. A rather slow and dreamy student, Albert was bored with non-scientific subjects, 3 and learned little under the harsh military-style 19 th century German education system. ![]() He attended a nearby Catholic elementary school in Munich and then the local high school. ![]() He is somewhat less well-known for his remark ‘God does not play dice with the universe.’ But what did Einstein really mean by ‘God’? Was his ‘God’ anything like the God of the Bible? Childhood influencesĪlthough born in 1879 of German-Jewish parents, Albert was not brought up in the Jewish faith. His theories of special and general relativity and his formula for the equivalence of mass and energy, E = mc 2, changed forever our views on time and space, light and gravity, matter and energy. Einstein, the universe, and God Image Ĭhosen by Time magazine to be their ‘Person of the Century’, 1 Albert Einstein 2 is famous for many things (apart from his shaggy visage).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |