Insight in into Einstein's beliefs in God and the Jewish people

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Actually I though Navaros answer was a very good rebuttal from a religious perspective.

I'll break it down into its paragraphs and add my comments below each.

The wisdom of any man, even the smartest ever born on the Earth, doesn't mean much. If God exists, then the wisdom of the wisest man on Earth is foolishness to God. Utlimately, all & any statements about there being no God from the mouth of any man, is merely unfounded speculation. It cannot be proven. Therefore it is unimportant what any man thinks. God or the lack of God is what it is, speculation about it from the smartest man on Earth has no bearing on whether God exists or not.

No matter how smart one is or how many people agree with you it does not make a statement true. Most science is written in the third person to try and remove personal authourity from an individual report. God cannot be proven or disproven. However one can't prove which religion is right or not either, or if indeed any on Earth is correct at all. So why not treat them with equal weight and not raise one above the other. Which is what Einstein was talking about too.

If the letter described in the article is true, though, then Einstein does indeed lose a lot of credibility. What makes his lack of belief in God - which is simply a guess - any "less childish" than belief in God? There isn't any reasonable answer to that. Therefore, Einstein making a definitive, derogatory statement about the belief in God is based on nothing other than his own personal emotions, not logic or science. As such, Einstein's remark was itself childish.

Correct some of his remarks might have gotten him a warning point in the Backroom. But as a private message we normally don't police that. Also what he states is

the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish

So he complements the stories as honourable but their format as primitive (like virtually all religions) and the stories as pretty childish (most religions present there stories in easy to understand primary school level ideas). So it would be rather difficult hypothetically speaking to give him a warning point or two.

It should also be noted that Jesus said it is good to accept him and God as children accept him. So while Einstein meant his "childish" comments as a slur against belief in God, in fact a "childish belief in God" may indeed be the best possible thing for human beings to have.

Nice riposte and turning of the cheek.