Einstein was a brilliant skeptic
"Einstein sometimes used the word 'God' to mean the amazing laws of the universe, but he was a functional atheist. For example, he wrote in The New York Times in 1930: “'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 and ridiculous egotism.'”
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