Comments on: Einstein on God http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2007/04/29/einstein-on-god/ Balancing the signal-to-noise ratio. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:15:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jfizzicks http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2007/04/29/einstein-on-god/comment-page-1/#comment-359 jfizzicks Tue, 01 May 2007 02:43:13 +0000 http://blog.nicholascloud.com/?p=115#comment-359 \"The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who – in their grudge against traditional religion as the \'opium of the masses\' – cannot hear the music of the spheres.\" --Albert Einstein<br /> <br /> I\'m afraid all walks of academia are plagued with the fanatical atheists; sadly, it is fashionable to be one and deplorable to be otherwise. \”The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who – in their grudge against traditional religion as the \’opium of the masses\’ – cannot hear the music of the spheres.\” –Albert Einstein

I\’m afraid all walks of academia are plagued with the fanatical atheists; sadly, it is fashionable to be one and deplorable to be otherwise.

]]> By: Jon http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2007/04/29/einstein-on-god/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Jon Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:31:50 +0000 http://blog.nicholascloud.com/?p=115#comment-358 One of the funniest things about reading up on early Christian history is that Christians were accused of being atheists by the Roman government, because they wouldn't worship the official state gods. I think our modern definitions of atheism and agnosticism are definitely more helpful than the older ones. One of the funniest things about reading up on early Christian history is that Christians were accused of being atheists by the Roman government, because they wouldn’t worship the official state gods. I think our modern definitions of atheism and agnosticism are definitely more helpful than the older ones.

]]> By: Britt http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2007/04/29/einstein-on-god/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Britt Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:02:54 +0000 http://blog.nicholascloud.com/?p=115#comment-357 Yup, that pretty much means I'm an Atheist...er...AND Agnostic. Why couldn't this dude have figured EVERYthing out? D'oh. Yup, that pretty much means I’m an Atheist…er…AND Agnostic. Why couldn’t this dude have figured EVERYthing out? D’oh.

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