Only for those who have read the 4 essays in Ideas and Opinions about science and religion

[SoLeftIAmRight]

would you share your thoughts?

[truebrit71]

1. No.

But thanks for asking so politely.

[cleanhippie]

2. Sure

[SoLeftIAmRight]

3. 2 clowns and...

crickets from many uninvited views

the usual suspects - with knives drawn - only their own baggage to stab

Some great thoughts out there waiting...

[cleanhippie]

4. Why not post the essays and/or links...

...instead of posting flamebait?


More flies with honey kinda thing.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

5. no flamebait

just do not want to hear from people that have not seen the essays

the opposite of flamebait

two of them are easy to find - and free -

easy to buy
A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government.


enjoy

[cleanhippie]

6. Then share YOUR feelings about the parts of the essays you want to discuss.

This is a discussion group. Specifically, a Religion discussion group.

If you only want a particular audience made up of those that have read a specific book, perhaps Good Reads is the place for your post. This certainly isn't it.


And this isn't an "Only for..." group. There are a zillion of those groups on DU if you're looking for that.

[Renew Deal]

7. Would you mind sharing the essays?

For those of us that want to get educated?

[SoLeftIAmRight]

8. will look later

bed time for me now

[SoLeftIAmRight]

9. Some of the essays can be found here - and his thoughts on atheist

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
— Albert Einstein
in Goldman, p. vii

In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human understanding, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.
— Prince Hubertus zu Löwenstein, Towards the Further Shore (Victor Gollancz, London, 1968), p. 156; quoted in Jammer, p. 97


I was barked at by numerous dogs who are earning their food guarding ignorance and superstition for the benefit of those who profit from it. Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source. They are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional "opium of the people"—cannot bear the music of the spheres. The Wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
— Einstein to an unidentified adressee, Aug.7, 1941. Einstein Archive, reel 54-927, quoted in Jammer, p. 97




http://www.einsteinandreligion.com/

[bvf]

11. Did you post this in your sleep?

[AlbertCat]

14. Einstein was an amazing physicist!

And even he resisted quantum physics... and thought we would never observe things his very own theories produced... that we have now observed (like gravitational lensing).

What he thinks of religion might be interesting for a minute or two, but who really cares?
Same for what he thinks of atheists.

I don't see how an argument flawed with an appeal to authority is very relevant.

We've come a long way since Einstein was working.

Is there anything on what he thinks of gay marriage? How about Muslim suicide bombers, what's his take on that?


Got anything on what Feynman thinks of things not related to physics?

[beam me up scottie]

10. .

?d1f210b4

[Act_of_Reparation]

12. No, thanks.

But thanks for asking.

[mr blur]

13. You're funny.

Predictable, but funny.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

15. Uninvited snide comments are what were predictable...

And I do find that funny!

[Act_of_Reparation]

16. Not as "are what were" predictable as invited snide comments.

[cleanhippie]

19. !

[gcomeau]

17. I have read them actually...

...but if the OP author can't be bothered to expend the energy to post a single original thought of their own on the essays why should anyone else bother to come into your thread and do it for you? If you think something about the essays was specifically worth discussing here DO SO.

[cleanhippie]

18. +1.

IOW, it's flamebait.