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Einstein was an Atheist. He was told to go back to Germany by people because he said a personal God wasn't real.
 
Einstein was an Atheist. He was told to go back to Germany by people because he said a personal God wasn't real.

He didn't believe in a particular God or brand of religion, but he did believe there was too much coincidence in the universe for it to exist without there being some unknown form of God or higher being.
 
Yeah that image has kind of failed. I seem to remember some Einstein quote about Science without God being meaningless or something.
 
He didn't believe in a particular God or brand of religion, but he did believe there was too much coincidence in the universe for it to exist without there being some unknown form of God or higher being.

He said if God is the harmony or order and law in the universe then he believes in God but he regarded a personal God as something childish.
 
"The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."
- Abraham Lincoln

"I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity."
- Abraham Lincoln

"My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them."
- Abraham Lincoln, letter to Judge J.S. Wakefield, after the death of Willie Lincoln

"It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity."
- Abraham Lincoln

You might want to read some works by the great figures of our nation. Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin were both Atheists, and I can provide quotes from them as well, if you'd like.