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Einstein Called Religion Expression of Weakness


By Jill Lawless, Associated Press


posted: 13 May 2008 05:21 pm ET


LONDON (AP) — Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core?


A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel prize-winning physicist's religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish.''