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EINSTEIN ON MIRACLES?

9/5/2018

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As Abraham Lincoln famously said, “the problem with quotes on the internet is that very often they are not authentic.” In spite of this, one of my Facebook friends recently posted something supposedly said by Einstein which many find inspirational. It goes like this: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.” 

As this was obviously not something Einstein would have said, I did a Google search to see if I could find its actual origin. What I found, though, ended up being more interesting: comments by quite a few people who were upset about the description of the quote as fake, and as “sugar coated garbage.” The comments, it seems, say a lot about religious mentality. Here are a few examples: 

“I’ll take the sugar quoted garbage. Happiness is my goal in life and too often the ‘get real’ advice gets in my way.” 

“Regardless of the veracity we all invest our own meanings and have our own needs. For me the quote is about gratitude, wonder and belief.” 

“If something is meant to be positive, constructive and inspiring. What is the harm?... Let’s rejoice in great quotes that can uplift and put some sunshine in our days. Let’s celebrate those daily miracles. I know I do :)” 

What is striking about these comments is their blatant lack of concern with the facts. These people openly admit that they don’t care whether what they believe is true so long as it makes them feel good. 

Of course, this doesn’t prove that all religious people are like this. But even those who claim to have reasons for their beliefs often show that they really aren’t all that concerned with truth. When faced with a clear contradiction in the Bible, for example, they will jump through logical hoops to avoid facing it. 

Acceptance of “sugar-coated garbage” is probably more common than is generally acknowledged. 


Source of above comments: 
fakebuddhaquotes.com/debunking-fake-albert-einstein-quotes/

Regarding possible origin of fake Einstein quote: 
www.quora.com/What-quotes-are-most-commonly-misattributed-to-Albert-Einstein



[Originally published at Debunking Christianity]

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Drue
9/5/2018 02:47:01 pm

Related experience: when asking an acquaintance who had raised the subject of God why he, the acquaintance, is a believer, the response was one I've heard before in various forms: "I wouldn't want to live in a world without God." (I doubt this is true, but that is a another issue.)

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Franz Kiekeben
9/6/2018 12:34:21 pm

Good example.

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