Einstein’s God

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The “God Letter’
offers
insights
into
the private thoughts
about
religion and God
of one of the world’s
most brilliant minds,
the smartest man
of  the 20h century,
Albert Einstein.

“The word God

is for me
nothing more
than
the expression
and product
of human weakness
The Bible,
a collection
of honorable,
but
still primitive legends
which are nevertheless
pretty childish.
No interpretation,
no matter how subtle,
can
change this.”
 

Albert Einstein’s God letter was written towards the end of his life.  This should settle the argument about Einstein’s religious beliefs.  When Einstein said “God does not play dice with the universe” he was using a metaphor, not expressing his religious beliefs.

The letter is currently up for auction with an opening bid of three million. Happy bidding!

© 2012 Catherine Giordano

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The teenaged years—
A time of angst,
bad decisions,
hormones.
coming-of-age melodrama.

The church-going young

want answers from God.
“Are you there?”
“Are you there?”
they implore in prayer.

God doesn’t answer.

 

One of the difficulties of the teenaged years is the realization that your parents and other adults in your life don’t necessarily have all the answers.  You have to learn to think for yourself.

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Is the United States a Christian Nation?

Is the United States a Christian Nation?
The answer: A resounding “No.”

Violence, immorality,

theft at the highest levels,
greed, materialism,
drugs, pornography,
lust, vulgarity,
dishonesty, drunkenness,
unending egregious wrongs.

America’s moral decadence.

Christian values disdained.

I can’t dispute that all these un-Christian behaviors exist in our society.  They exist in every society, everywhere, throughout the eons.

But, America, like every other society, everywhere, throughout the eons, also has love, kindness, nurturing, hope, faithfulness, helpfulness, self-sacrifice, honor, altruism, forgiveness, honesty, compassion, ethics, and goodness of every kind. These values can be found among all moral people whether they are Christian or not.

The words in this poem are taken from the rant of an Orlando Sentinel reader who was a guest columnist. The poem accurately reflects the world-view he presented in his column. How sad it is that he can only see the ugly.

 

© 2012 Catherine Giordano

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The "God Particle"

Learn more about the discovery
of Higgs Boson

The Higgs boson
is a sub-atomic particle,
that exists for a fraction of a second.
Long theorized, but never glimpsed.

The so-called “God particle,”

is the key to understanding the existence
of all mass in the universe.
Long theorized, at last glimpsed.

Scientists erupted with joy.

Sir Peter Higgs shed tears.
It is a gigantic triumph for physics.
It is the last piece of the puzzle.

It answers one very basic question:

Why does matter exist?

© 2012 Catherine Giordano

The Higgs boson is the last missing piece for the Standard Model, the theory that describes the basic building blocks of the universe.  The particle was found amid hundreds of trillions of high speed collisions in the Large Haldron Collider in Geneva which recreated the conditions immediately after the big bang.

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