My "Bad Hairday"

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I am learning German these days. When you think of German, the first to come to mind is...dandaran, Albert Einstein.

So, coincidentally I found some interesting stuff that would raise my hair in not so very bad day.

Albert Einstein: It is a Lie that I Believe in a Personal God...
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. - Albert Einstein, letter to an atheist (1954), quoted in Albert Einstein: The Human Side…

Here is perhaps the best Einstein quote on God… in 1915 when he was at the height of his intellectual prowess:
Albert Einstein: Only God’s non-existence can excuse him…“Why do you write to me ‘God should punish the English’? I have no close connection to either one or the other. I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.” Albert Einstein, letter to Edgar Meyer, a Swiss colleague, January 2, 1915;

At around the when his death approached (in 1954) he wrote this massive intellectual attack on Catholicism as a grave obstacle to peace on this planet:

Albert Einstein: Catholic Political Activism Danger to the Community… I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet. - Albert Einstein, letter, 1954

Here’s more from Albert just before he died:

Albert Einstein: a new religion… "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever.… This is a somewhat new kind of religion.” Albert Einstein, a letter to Hans Muehsam, 1954;

Albert Einstein: Did not believe in immortality… “I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. Albert Einstein, letter to a Baptist pastor in 1953; from Albert Einstein the Human Side,