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Originally Posted by missdpuck

Maybe someone posted this already , but Einstein's "God" letter sold for over $3mill last year?

So, I've finally found a term to explain my use of "God", and that's colloquial metaphor.

It's a lot shorter than saying, "crap I'm too lazy to explain" or "unknown forces I may never understand", etc.

His letter caused quite a stir in those days.

Some of the excerpts.

Einstein expressed his skepticism regarding an anthropomorphic deity, often describing it as "naïve" and "childlike". He stated, "It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem—the most important of all human problems.

The Word of God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish," Einstein wrote from his home in Princeton, N.J.

He claimed that no interpretation, no matter how sophisticated, could sway his stance.