> On May 16, 12:30 am, Basti...@aol.com wrote:
>
>
>

>> Dear Newsgroup:

>

>> The following news was on CBC on May 15,2008:

>

>>http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/05/15/einstein-letter.html
>> {
>> Einstein letter dismissing God sells for
>> $330,000 US
>> Last Updated: Thursday, May 15, 2008 | 5:19 PM ET
>> CBC News
>> A letter written by Albert Einstein in which he dismissed belief in
>> God as a “product of human weaknesses” was auctioned off Thursday for
>> more than $330,000 US, destroying previous selling records of letters
>> by the renowned physicist.

>

>> The letter, written in German in 1954 to philosopher Eric Gutkind, was
>> sold in London, England, by Bloomsbury Auctions to a private
>> collector. It had initially been expected to fetch between $12,000 US
>> and $16,000 US.

>

>> “It beats the world record for an Einstein letter by about four
>> times," managing director Rupert Powell told the Guardian newspaper.
>> "It's a massive difference."

>

>> In the letter, Einstein writes "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."

>

>> Einstein, who was Jewish, also rejects the notion that Jews were God’s
>> chosen people
>> "For me, the Jewish religion like all other religions is an
>> incarnation of the most childish superstitions,"

>

>> he wrote.

>

>> He added that "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 also 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."

>

>> Einstein's religious and spiritual beliefs have been the subject of
>> much speculation by both believers and skeptics.}

>

>> Well, such an understanding demonstrates that he had an overall narrow
>> viewpoint about the universe.

>

>> I imagine he was possibly out of his mind a year before his death.

>

>> Dr.M.Basti

>
> That letter is a fraud. Einstein was a true believer.
>
> He said as he got older the more he believed in a Creator.