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"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/12/peopleinscience.religion

Ha ha , I was just in a debate with somebody about this last night. The guy actually claimed Einstien was a Christian of all things (strange considering he was born of Jewish lieage). This is a great source to point him to. I'm not sure why he considered these primitive collection of legends honorable though. Maybe in the context of its age but damn there's some brutal shit in the bible.

It's a pitty the man favored bigger government to control big government. He wanted the UN to control all nuclear weapons, which is kind of a god fantasy. The UN is almost up there with god.

ianchin:

Ha ha , I was just in a debate with somebody about this last night. The guy actually claimed Einstien was a Christian of all things (strange considering he was born of Jewish lieage). This is a great source to point him to. I'm not sure why he considered these primitive collection of legends honorable though. Maybe in the context of its age but damn there's some brutal shit in the bible.

While most here are atheists, even atheists can sift through the bible and find some merit outside of religion there, such as morality.

chris133:

While most here are atheists, even atheists can sift through the bible and find some merit outside of religion there, such as morality.

If you follow this "morality", then you would have to be doing all sorts of horrible things day and night (killing people who work on the Sabbath, slaying homosexuals, etc.). To take a lesson from the bible, you would have to take all of its lessons. To do otherwise proves that religion is not a moral compass. If I chose to listen to my compass half the time because the other half of the time it disagreed with my GPS, could I truthfully call the compass my guide?

...wasnt Einstein like, well up for eugenics?