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1 A Rabbi asked Einstein simply: “Do you believe in God?”

2 “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of Human beings.”

3 The orderly harmony of what exists

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5 “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists,

6 So – Just who was this Spinoza guy? Check him out

7 Spinoza’s (and Einstein’s) God A Universal God who can be properly apprehended only by the application of reason to the world around us. This suggests that Spinoza’s “religion of disenchantment” could in fact be a prescient description of modern science: A pantheistic universe whose truth we can apprehend only by the use of reason, mathematics and rational experiment. “Spinoza in 90 minutes” Paul Strathern

8 Great Spirits have always have encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds

9 So who exactly is this guy that: “… does not play dice!”

10 Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I am not certian about the former. Einstein A

11 Years later Einstein expanded on this in a letter to Solovine, the survivor of the Olympia Academy (check Google?). “I can understand your aversion to the use of the term “religion” to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza, but I have not found a better expression than ‘religious’ for trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason.”

12 Question everything and everyone The road to truth is paved with doubt and you will find many detours and roadblocks set up by individuals and organisations to waylay you and take away your freedom – your personal rights.

13 The road to truth is paved with doubt The road to deception is paved with conviction

14 Many give themselves away because they invariably get angry (or issue threats) when you express doubt but some are more devious - however they can be recognised as they invariably have a hidden agenda – to blind you with conviction in order to exert influence and power over you and your actions. Money is also often involved

15 Cardinal O’Connell of Boston who attacked Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity told a group of Catholics that:

16 “The theory cloaked the ghastly apparition of atheism and befogged speculation, producing universal doubt about god and his creation”


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