Einstein On Religion
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Noone has ever killed IN the name of atheism.
There is no NAME of atheism, its a linguistic fallacy in the same way that saying someone IS a vegetarian. You cannot name or categorise someone on the basis of what they DON'T do..
Word-games, the whole lot of it.
Something did come from nothing, however we do not have the language or technology to fully understand what the something is, let along what the nothing is, so that idea is kind of a place-holder - it inidicates broadly what we understand of the problem.
Knowing that there IS a God tells us nothing extra about the world, tales of same, however old, do not give us new information about our world, they are merely conjecture.
There is no evidence of a god, anything that people hold up as evidence has another cause - known or not. This is not an article of faith, it is one of observation. There is no need to create a god - if you do not find meaning and wonder and majesty in the world without this idea, then you're really not looking hard enough.
Look at the trees, the sea, the mountains, arent they wonderful - isn't it amazing to be able to appreciate them, and to use our language and intellect to understand at least some of how they came to be ? (ah yes, isn't God great ? - what ? no - look at the mountains...look...there....in front of you, stop abstracting and live right now in this moment, and you'll find the need for secondary causes and concepts kinda falls by the wayside.