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Monday, May 12, 2008
Einstein on Jesus
I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene... No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
In 1954 Einstein apparently said, "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." http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080513122249.m3ds3b6j&show_article=1
C.S. Lewis would call it a "true myth."
ReplyDeleteThough the phrase was used by Tolkien in conversation with Lewis before Lewis was a Christian...
ReplyDeleteIn 1954 Einstein apparently said, "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."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080513122249.m3ds3b6j&show_article=1
Oh, quite. I'm not for a moment claiming he was a Christian. For what it's worth, he was a kind of non-pantheist Spinozan deist.
ReplyDeleteBut he found Jesus fascinating, in rather the same way that Gandhi did.