Albert Einstein did not claim to be a religious man, nor did he claim to be an atheist. He simply knew too much to claim anything. When a person is knowledgeable as atheists claim to be, what they know is that the more one knows the more one knows just how much they don't know.
Albert Einstein did not believe as many do in a personal God, but he did believe that there was a bigger force in the universe. A creator who is above all of us. That is what many of call God.
For those of you who are atheists, I pray that before you die, you will find truth and happiness, and in the meantime, find it in your heart to leave Christians and other religious groups to believe as they please.
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A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. (Albert Einstein)
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." (Albert Einstein, 1954)
"Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being." (Albert Einstein, 1936)
"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature." (Albert Einstein, The World as I See It)
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Albert-Einstein-Quotes.htm
What might or might not have changed in his beliefs and perspectives between 1954 and April 1955 is between Einstein and God, I guess.......
Not a problem... so long as they don't insist on inserting their religious beliefs into my grandchildren's science classrooms, our courtrooms and our government.