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Originally Posted by Robert Ingersoll
In what way is religion not complete & bull$hit? To paraphrase Einstein, if we need to believe in an invisible man in order to behave ourselves, we are a sorry lot indeed.
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That's a very broad paraphrase. I'll answer with an actual quote from him (1930) - "I can't answer with a simple yes or no. I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows
someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations."
Einstein has always denied the religious church and organised religion but he never denies the presense of a creator.