Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay 414
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cheesecake23 writes "In an admirably concise piece in The Atlantic, Rebecca J. Rosen summarizes Einstein's subtle views on religion and profound respect for the inexplicable, along with the news that a letter handwritten by the legendary scientist that describes the Bible as a 'collection of honorable, but still primitive legends' and 'pretty childish' will be auctioned off on eBay over the next two weeks. Bidding will begin at $3 million."
Re:2012 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:2012 (Score:5, Funny)
Um, something about Jesus, Jews and a cross, keeps coming to mind.
You must mean the famous joke:
What happens when you drive nails through the hands of the son of a jewish carpenter? He gets very cross...
Re:2012 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:2012 (Score:5, Funny)
Jesus promised the end of all wicked people.
Thor promised the end of all ice giants.
I don't see many ice giants around.
Re:3 million (Score:4, Funny)
Re:2012 (Score:5, Funny)
The bible has been in human hands for centuries and copied by hand before printing presses came in. A spelling mistake here, bad handwriting there, the next guy comes along and misreads a word and then 'fixes' the sentence so that it makes sense. I'd be shocked if there was a single page in there that hadn't changed. And that's only accidental changes.
Of course, The Faithful claim that $DEITY in his glorious omnipotence has kept The Holy Word pure and absolutely identical to The Original.
In common-speek that's a circular proof and can thusly be completely ignored.
Re:Church and Einstein (Score:5, Funny)
You also don't burn down the stadium of the opponent you play in your next game, if you lose. But you will still have people in your fan crowd demanding exactly that.
My personal stance is quite similar to this one:
Religion is like a penis.
It's fine to have one.
It's fine to be proud of it.
But, please don't pull it out and wave it around in public.
And never ever force it down the throat of my children.
Re:2012 (Score:2, Funny)
Uh huh. Where are the transitional bible fossils then!?
Re:3 million (Score:5, Funny)
I suspect he would be writing the squeal.
A horror movie about a giant man-eating pig running amok, frightening townspeople and causing havok?