-> Albert Einstein->

 "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 religion
than
-> it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as
our
-> science can reveal it."

Which is great, satisfactory and sufficient ---

IF you have 'unbounded admiration' for structure...

I'd go to Albert for math, for theology I'd prefer Bultmann...


-> 
-> "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his
creation...

Nor can I. My Gods would never do that.


->Neither can I believe that the individual survives
-> the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts
through fear
-> or ridiculous egotism."

Or both.

 
-> "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a
reward,
-> then we are a sorry lot indeed."

Yep. We ARE a sorry lot.


-> 
-> -Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist

MY favorite quote of his:

"Time is an illusion, although a very persistent one."

Asimov...

"...intellectually
-> unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed
knowledge that
-> one didn't have...

...I
-> don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so
strongly
-> suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."

Good attitude if you are going to write mor'n a hundred books!

-> 
-> -Isaac Asimov, Russian-born - American author
-> Ernest Hemingway
-> 
-> "All thinking men are atheists."

Take it from a man who commits suicide? No, thanks.

-> Ernest "did not only not believe in God but regarded organized religion
as a menace to human happiness"

I'll take 50% of that. Organized religion is I think, a contradiction in
terms.

MY church has no member-list and is the only one --ever-- to
have, as a first principal, a refusal to accept money.

-> Arthur C. Clarke
-> 
-> "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to
create
-> him."

God created man...so man returned the favor...:-)

 
-> "Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have
been a
-> necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing
people
-> in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?"

Yep. The current administration being insane is not unthinkable...
 
-> 
-> Arthur C. Clarke, author


-> Benjamin Franklin
-> 
-> "I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed
myself
-> from Christian assemblies."

I too found (and still find much that is) unintelligible.

I'm not what you call a church-goer...but I've never been to one I didn't
like. (You don't have to believe, to enjoy...)

--------
"I consider my self a Hindu. Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddist, and
Comfucian.

------Mohandas Gandhi

Me, too. 

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."

------G.K Chesterson.

And one from Albert, again..."Science without religion is lame, religion
without science is blind"

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