A letter written by Albert Einstein which details his view on religion has sold for double its estimate in New York. The one-and-a-half page letter is written to German philosopher, Eric Gutkind and responds to one of his works. Known as the "God Letter" it acts as the most explicit account of the scientists" thoughts on religion. Christie"s had originally valued the item at 1-1.5 million.
In the letter Einstein explains his lack of conviction toward religion."The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses" he explains."The Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change anything about this."
On his own Jewish identity he writes "like all other religions, an incarnation of primitive superstition. The Jewish people to whom I gladly belong, and in whose mentality I feel profoundly anchored, still for me does not have any different kind of dignity from all other peoples".
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