Summary
Did you know that Albert Einstein, although Jewish, went through a brief childhood phase of devout Christianity?
In an autobiographical sketch written at age 67, he described his short-lived faith, planted in him by daily teachings at a Catholic school to which his parents had sent him:See the full content of this document
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Grasping the Mysterious Code of the Universe
"Thus I came - despite the fact that I was the son of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiosity, which, however, found an abrupt ending at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books, I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic freethinking, coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies. It was a crushing impression.
"Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions which were alive in a...See the full content of this document
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