________________________________________________________________________________ / The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events, the firmer \ | becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered | | regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of | | human nor the rule of divine will exists as an independent cause of natural | | events. To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural | | events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this | | doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge | | has not yet been able to set foot. | | | | But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives | | of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which | | is able to maintain itself not in clear light, but only in the dark, will | | of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human | | progress. In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion | | must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, | | give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast | | powers in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail | | themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the | | True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more | | difficult but an incomparably more worthy task. | \ -- Albert Einstein / --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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