Einstein On Religion
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If I were a god, with with power to create sentient intelligent beings with the power to ponder my existence and search for me, I would grant him the grace of privacy of thought and deed free from divine judgement, even after death. The greatest gift I could imagine I could bestow would be freedom from my oversight, with the intellect and heart to love one another and make sense of the universe.
If this is truly the case we are left with a paradox....
This god described above, who so loved the man he had created would then prompted disappear, in the ultimate sacrifice, as a gift to man. This is a god in whom I could believe, and one that could quite easily have existed within a p-brane universe now being postulated in cosmology. If this is the case, and he is reading this from his position, his only existent moment - at the beginning of time - then - sir, "Well done - you have made something truly remarkable, and I am eternally grateful and humbled to be a part of it".
We atheists too share in the sense of wonder, humility and gratitude to be alive, we just don't paint a face on the void and talk to it.