14 May 2008...2:48 pm
Einstein Was One Of Ours… Suck It, Jews
“For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.”
“And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people.”
“As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.”
“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. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.”
Are these new quotes from Christopher Hitchens?
With that playfully cruel tone and those thick anti-religious sentiments, you would expect it to have come from the mouth of Hitchens himself. Wrong. These are three quotes from German physicist Albert Fucking Einstein in his newly revealed letter to be auctioned off tomorrow in London.
Works and letters like these have been the bane of every Christian and Jew who love to cherrypick Einstein’s works for allegedly religion-positive quotes to give credibility to the slip-shod argument that the (arguably) most genius person to have ever lived was one of their own. This letter leaves no doubt that Einstein was way too smart for the religious delusions of the stupid masses of hairless apes on this rock.
Religion works hard to find fragments of quotes that fit what they want history to tell. “Religion is the opiate of the people,” is one of the most famous improperly quoted statements of Karl Marx, designed by Christians to label Communism as Atheism and vice versa. The quote is deliberately out of context and all those who quote it know that it is and should be ashamed of themselves.
Einstein was the target of a similar campaign with his quote, “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” This was spoken in the same vein as his 1940 paper in Nature where he speaks positively about the feeling of spiritual transcendence. This is not an endorsement of religion or theism. It is simply a victim of the hijacking of the vocabulary by religion. “Spiritual transcendence” doesn’t necessarily mean anything immaterial, knowing what we know about neurology. Sam Harris is of the same opinion of those feelings as Einstein was. No one would dare try and call Sam Harris a theist. After this letter, only an idiot would try the same trick on Einstein again.
On a side note, the letter is being sold tomorrow. My birthday is tomorrow. You know what you can get me.
Rev. Reed Braden
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24 Comments
14 May 2008 at 3:51 pm
Why do you fanatics hate religion? I don’t hate science or atheists. Religion will be completely transformed anyway to a more scientific understanding. Yes, religion has been used to control people and so has science. People see their doctors as Gods, even though there are tons of side affects.
14 May 2008 at 4:00 pm
Nope. You’re an idiot.
14 May 2008 at 4:11 pm
Gotta love it when the monotheists try to bring him up as a “great mind who believed in god”…
RAmen!
~Dan
14 May 2008 at 5:05 pm
Not sure I understand the “Suck it, Jews” or the “Albert Fucking Einstein.” We’re happy for yet more confirmation on Einstein’s thinking about religion.
I guess you were attempting to be clever using the language you chose for your post. You’re not really clever though–more like a self-absorbed pseudo-intellectual who’s more into himself than the issues he’s addressing.
We’re all happy the Einstein letter was found. Your post was far less compelling. Even a little boring. Next time, why don’t you plan to post when you really have something to say that might interest others. Try to avoid the mental masturbation. It makes for pretty messy reading.
14 May 2008 at 6:32 pm
That you don’t understand something doesn’t give you license to be an asshole. Must I explain everything and spoonfeed it you?
“Suck it, Jews.” Religious people, most notably the Jews, like to claim Einstein as one of their own and are so adamant about this that they often reveal themselves to be frauds without rationalists even having to lift a finger to expose them as such. This letter leaves no doubt that they are wrong. They can suck it.
“Albert Fucking Einstein.” In American youth vernacular, the word fucking is often used as an intensifier between the first and last names of people when the person being referenced is an unexpected answer to a question.
Example: “Guess who found the cure for cancer.”
“I don’t know. Some scientist somewhere?”
“Wrong! Chuck Fucking Norris!”
Example 2: “Guess who came to my house for dinner last night.”
“Tom Hanks?”
“Fuck no, not Tom Hanks. Natalie Fucking Portman!”
“Dude, no way! Did you bone her?”
“No, dude. I treated her like a nice, respectable woman and we had pleasant conversation.”
“Oh. I’d have boned her.”
“I know you would have, Mike, but some of us don’t treat others in a philistine manner. Instead, we’re courteous to our house guests. Who was at your house last night?”
“Tom Hanks.”
“Ha ha ha ha! You fail at life, Mike.”
“I know. Damn you Tom Hanks!”
I write primarily for myself. I write what I want to write and what I want to read. If you don’t like my style of writing or my thoughts are a bit too piecemeal and un-organised for you, I direct you to my blogroll to the right of this text. I’m sure you can find something you like there. However, I like my writing and so do several hundred regular readers, so your opinion means jack shit to me.
Next time, why don’t you plan to comment when you’re not talking out of your ass.
You live in a shit-splat town in West Central Wisconsin: Why should I take you seriously?
14 May 2008 at 7:49 pm
The more you write, the smaller, the tinier you become. Maybe one day, you’ll realize that if you stop posting, the rest of us will be far better off. But, since, as you indicated, that you do this for yourself, why don’t you do it in longhand on toilet paper and then use it where it really belongs?
By the way, Einstein was not a religious, but a cultural Jew, and actually, a pretty active one at that. He was very happy about who he was, despite your silly post.
“Shit-splat town in West Central Wisconsin?” West Central Wisconsin, yes. It’s a magnificent place and the location of my second home–my primary residence being Chicago. You continue to prove my point. Making judgements based on someone’s address? Getting even teeny-tinier.
It appears that you haven’t yet reached even the fringes of adulthood. That you can’t express yourself without the use of vulgarisms is yet further proof of your pubescent state. You may not be aware, but writers find it relatively easy to communicate without their use–and pretty successfully too, particularly about weighty matters. Read anything lately?
I assume that someday, you’ll grow up though it may take time. Be patient. Chances are you’ll become an adult at some point when your glands start producing testosterone and your penis gets bigger. And maybe then, you’ll be able to write with some clarity and authority.
You really are an intolerable and unintentionally funny little jerk.
14 May 2008 at 10:53 pm
I’m 6′0″ and 225 Lbs. I’m not small.
I didn’t ask you, or anyone else, to read my blog.
I prefer the medium of the Internet. It makes my posts more easily searchable. I can quickly and cleanly use Google to find my past writings rather than dig through a septic tank for hours.
Idiot. That’s exactly the point I made. Religious Jews claim him to be religious. He was not. That’s exactly what I meant. Idiot.
Actually, West Central Wisconsin is a cold, flat, bitter wasteland. If you like cheese curds, it’s a great place. No one likes cheese curds. Living in Chicago is not much better. It’s the New York that wasn’t New York. I’ve been in both places. I wasn’t impressed.
Actually, my point was that you’re not as anonymous as you think you are on the Internet, Mr. Solberg. Tell Rebecca hi for me. Does the word Ulland mean anything to you?
So adulthood is going to blogs that you don’t like and trashing the author without reading the posts? Well, I’m glad I’m not there yet.
Or it’s proof that I’m tired of trolls… and have Tourette’s Syndrome and write to reflect my inner thoughts without censoring them.
Actually, I just finished Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. I’m halfway through Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature. I plan to read Goethe’s Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers next in its original German. Also, I’m a reporter for the Roanoke Times and I’m working on a screenplay for a comedy/horror film that I will be directing this July. On top of all of this, I’m learning Italian. I want to learn Arabic once I master Italian. Also, and this is unrelated, I’m an actor, comedian, sketch-comedy author and classically trained vocalist (2nd place in the state of VA for college freshmen males, National Association of Teachers of Singing 2008).
Edit: Most of that paragraph was completely off topic, but I was on a roll with praising myself and couldn’t stop. meh. It happens.
The truth is that writers write how other people want them to write until they make it big. Then they write how they really want to write. Take Stephen King, for instance. After his first few novels, he became utterly disgusting and vulgar. Even further down the road, his novels sacrificed plot for strange literary experimentation. Even when he started to suck, almost every one of his books was a New York Times best-seller. The difference between me and Stephen King is that I don’t want to be rich and famous, so I write how I want to write now. I’m not waiting for riches before I express my true writing style. It’s vulgar and admittedly wordy and shoddy, expressing my inner voice–which I never use in public–influenced by my Tourette’s Syndrome. I can put on my journalism hat and write something that any boob can easily understand, but I write what goes on in my mind, which is often rambling, vulgar, hyperbolised and offensive. I figure it’s more interesting because of that. If you don’t agree, you don’t have to read it.
Why would I want to grow up? Making zombie movies and writing sketch comedy is more fun than sitting in a cubicle.
Dozens of men–and a handful of women–can testify that my dick is big enough, thanks.
Big dicks make people write with clarity and authority?
But at least I’m funny.
14 May 2008 at 11:14 pm
Mike’s house.
Is that too much for your 54-year-old brain, old man?
15 May 2008 at 12:13 am
[QUOTE]Actually, my point was that you’re not as anonymous as you think you are on the Internet, Mr. Solberg. Tell Rebecca hi for me. Does the word Ulland mean anything to you?”[/QUOTE]
ZING! You’re bad Reed. Bad to the bone.
15 May 2008 at 10:58 am
Reed… I like your blog posts a lot… but must you always resort to personal privacy attacks on people who disagree?
If so, that’s fine. It’s your prerogative.
But IMO, I think it’s unbecoming of you.
That’s all I’ve got to add… keep up the good blogs.
~Dan
15 May 2008 at 12:36 pm
Posty, I was careful to make it very explicit to him. To everyone else, the word Ulland means nothing and the map is featureless. His privacy is as safe as it’s ever been on the Internet. I just like to remind people who get too big for their Internet-Britches that they’re not anonymous and I know who they are. Paper beats rock. Scissors beat paper. Creepiness beats ad hominim.
15 May 2008 at 1:19 pm
It’d be cool if Google Earth could zoom into someone’s underwear drawer.
15 May 2008 at 7:42 pm
Reed,
I like ya just fine, honey.
Ms. V.
16 May 2008 at 2:50 am
I’m not asking for anyone to like me. I’m only asking for devoutly obsessed readers and a bit of hero worship. ;-)
Thanks, Ms. V. Tell V I said hi and thanks for blowing up Parliament.
16 May 2008 at 5:00 am
I’d be pretty careful who this sort of thing is worded - I mean, after all, people usually can’t tell the difference between mocking the religion (harmless-ish) and mocking the race (wrong and racist).
Examples: “Oy vey, ve can’t eat pawk!” Joshing the religion.
“FUCKING BIG NOSED YIDS!” This is making fun of the ethnic stereotypes of the Hebre people.
Calling the people of Israel “Jewish” was a retarded idea, since they really mean “Hebrew”. I know Judaism is the national religion, but there ARE non-Jewish members of the “Jewish” (i.e. HEBREW) people.
Most people will see it as anti-Semitism because of their lack of fucking perception. As fucking always.
16 May 2008 at 11:25 am
Einstein…you can have him. Thanks for the theories, though.
I find it fairly lame the tenacity with which people continue to jostle to have Einstein be on their side or not. You read his writings, and it is pretty obvious, I thought. He is definitely not a Christian, so I’m under no delusion that he will be in heaven, nor was he much of a devout Jew. Who cares if he said a few squirrel-y things on occasion that may allow you to sneak him in the back door of your church or synagogue?
Einstein was not and is not a theist!
He had no interest or desire for a personal God to exist. Though I can’t state for sure, I would go so far as to say that the idea would be a fairly bothersome one for him. Who wants a God who can meddle with your calculations or to go through the trouble of discovering the “rules” for the natural world only to have to add the caveat that, “Oh yeah, but there is one Being that doesn’t have to follow them.”
What interests me most are his theories and their implications. What do they tell us about the existence of matter? What are the implications of the theory of General Relativity coupled with the Second Law of Thermodynamics and detected radiation in the universe?
When I answer those as best that a 25 year old English major can, I find that theism actually fits pretty well.
16 May 2008 at 11:29 am
Here is another Einstein quote that both sets the record straight as far as his beliefs are concerned and the possibility of where his theories could lead:
“I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science.
My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance-but for us, not for God.”
16 May 2008 at 5:49 pm
Not Cruise,
So?
16 May 2008 at 5:51 pm
Yes, Trey. However, because of the language of that quote, it confuses must
idiotstheists.16 May 2008 at 5:53 pm
I didn’t even read your first post, Trey. Just the second. My bad.
I still don’t care, however.
Don’t take this as hostility: It’s the day after my birthday and “I have a headache.”
17 May 2008 at 2:15 am
Yeah, happy birthday you ole’ bastard.
22 May 2008 at 7:44 pm
So we don’t come across as being neo-Nazis and what have you.
Let’s face it: when a poorly-chosen word partway through your argument causes thirty rabbis to start screaming and drown you out, it kind of makes your argument hard to finish.
Now, I don’t really give a tinker’s shit what people think, and I certainly wouldn’t let it alter what I had to say, or my message. But, I’d try and use words that wouldn’t piss people off *too* much. If it offends them a bit, then it’s tough shit.
But if it makes them insane with rage, that’s not good, given as you can’t finish your argument. In other words, I’d try and use words that get my point across (without diluting /altering it for appeasement), yet I would also try to not piss ‘em off so much that the debate/argument ends up cancelled.
HOWEVER, if you CAN’T get the best of both worlds, and you HAVE to dilute/alter your message to keep people from becoming (too) offended, then no can do. Obviously, your point of view takes priority over people’s own pet hates.
But if you CAN get your full message across without sending them in rage mode, then that’s the path to take (and the other upshot of this is that people won’t think you’re a Hebrew-hating Nazi type).
22 May 2008 at 9:46 pm
Why? My audience and those who know me know what I mean. I’m part “Hebrew” myself, dammit! I’m not above pissing people off to attract readers.
23 May 2008 at 7:21 pm
I’ll respond to this later. Seems the site is a bit screwy.
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