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In article <1992Nov8.160429.14488@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> lnh@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (sometimes a Wombat) writes:

> gene@aee.aee.com (Gene Kochanowsky) writes:
> > If there is any complete nonsense here, it is that a person can be truely
> > religious and scientific in his religion at the same time. It is absurd, 
> > illogical and speaks volumes of misunderstanding on the part of that 
> > person of what is the basis of both science and religion.
> 
> Tell that to Einstein.

I don't know whether or not it is correct to say that Einstein was a
religious man, but he certainly was not religious in a conventional
sense.

Einstein once said that his religious beliefs were similar to those of
the philosopher Spinoza.  Just as a reminder, Spinoza was shunned by
the Jewish community of his city because they thought he was an
atheist.  (I don't think that they were right, but it is quite clear
from even a cursory examination that Spinoza's beliefs had almost
nothing to do with anything that is normally regarded as Jewish.)

People are sometimes misled by a few aphorisms of Einstein's into
thinking that he was conventionally devout.  He wasn't.
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