A.Einstein died in 1955, but in 1954 wrote to Erik Gutkind - in which he dismissed belief in God as superstitious and characterized
the stories in the Bible as childish. One might conclude he was reacting against such primitive superstitions held by many.
"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." - A.E.
"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly," - A.E.
""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." - A.E.
"for me, the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions." - A.E.
"“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --
a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body,
although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms".- A.E.
