by Steve Marshall

Created on: August 11, 2008

I recently wrote an article on Albert Einstein's religious views, and I submitted it as an historical article. My article was rejected because the editor was of the opinion that creativity in writing should not be a part of an historical article. Views are not factual, or relevant to historical recording of facts about somebody's life, or so the editor claimed.

Can history and factual information coincide in some way, and still be written in a creative way? How can religious views not be a part of history? Religion to be real has to always be written about creatively.

While it is true that history must be based on fact. The way it is written never is factual, because it is being written in words by another living person. This person, by living must create his article from himself, always interpreting the facts of history in his own unique way. This is why different histories have been written of the same events, and why something like the bible is open to interpretation.

All I did here was to open Einstein's views of religion to interpretation, rather than from the recorded facts of his own conversations. But I based them on his recorded conversations, and just interpreted them more deeply for my readers, as to what I thought he was meaning at the time he made these comments.

Here is my article, as I reflected on Albert Einstein, the man, and his religious view, and how I felt that he really held them deep within himself.

Albert Einstein was a man of great deepness, and held views on many, and varied subjects, as we all do. At times he indicated that he never believed in a personal God, but he certainly held a deepness of reverence for creation, and held creation in awe. This can be viewed, I think as a similar feeling to a religious feeling, but was any part of his religious understanding, also part of his underlying beliefs?

What were Albert Einstein's religious views? Did he believe in God, or soul, or in any form of afterlife, at all? Did he have any beliefs, such as, and including religious beliefs, not based on fact, or scientific theory?

Let's ask Albert himself, and imagine what his answer would have been to us. He would have liked this thought experiment, as he had a most vivid, and creative imagination.

ALBERT EINSTEIN'S VIEW ON RELIGION, AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES.

Albert would have answered me something like this, I think:

"I believed in life, and to me life, and reverence to life, always held deep religious connotations for me. The beauty in the simple construction

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