Das Wort Gott ist für mich nichts als

   Ausdruck und Produkt menschlicher

   Schwächen, die Bibel eine Sammlung

   ehrwürdiger aber doch reichlich 

   primitiver Legenden. 

   The word God for me is nothing more than the product 

  and expression of human weaknesses,  the Bible a 

  collection of many honorable but still primitive legends.

 對我而言，上帝這個詞不過是人類弱點的表現和產物，

《聖經》就是其中享有盛名但相當原始傳說的匯編。

https://uncertaintist.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/einstein-letter-gutkind-excerpts.pdf

 The word God is for me nothing more than the expression

 and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection 

 of honorable, but still primitive legends which are

 nevertheless pretty childish. 

https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/8/prweb9771671.htm

 The word God is for me nothing more than

 the expression and product of human

 weaknesses, the Bible a collection of

 honourable, but still primitive legends 

 which are nevertheless pretty childish. 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/

einstein-letter-auction-god-religion-rejection-

a8568886.html

         Wednesday, December 5, 2018

 CNN —  

 A letter penned by Albert Einstein in which he challenges the

 concept of religion has broken sale records at auction, fetching

 close to $2.9 million.

 Einstein’s “God letter,” which he sent to religious philosopher Erik

 Gutkind, was expected to fetch between $1 million and $1.5 million 

 at Christie’s in New York.

 The letter instead reached a grand total of $2,892,500 on Tuesday

 following a four-minute bidding battle between two clients on the

 phones, setting a world auction record for an Einstein letter.

 在兩位客戶在電話上進行了四分鐘的競標後， 

 這封信在周二的總價達到了 2,892,500 美元，

 創下了愛因斯坦信函的世界拍賣紀錄。

“ Collectors worldwide competed very strongly, in the room, over 

  the phone and online, for this finely curated auction which 

 comprised masterpieces and fresh-to-market property across a

 wide range of subjects,” said Sven Becker, head of books and

 manuscripts at Christie’s.

 Einstein’s 1954 letter – which was written in German a year before 

 his death – is a reaction to Gutkind’s 1952 book, “Choose Life: the

 Biblical Call to Revolt.”

 While Einstein acknowledges that he and Gutkind had a lot in

 common “with regard to the factual attitude to life and to human

 community,” he launches into a personal diatribe against religion.

“ The word God is for me nothing more

   than the expression and product of

   human weakness, the Bible a 

   collection of honorable, but still 

   purely primitive legends,  which are

   nevertheless pretty childish, ” 

   Einstein writes.

  Einstein's famous 'God Letter' is expected to fetch $1 million at   

  auction “No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change

  anything about this (for me),” he concludes.

 Einstein, who was a German-born Jew, also acknowledges his love

 and shared identity with the Jewish people, but calls Judaism, “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,” he writes.

 Peter Klarnet, a senior specialist in books and manuscripts at

 Christie’s, described the letter as “one of the definitive statements

 in the religion vs science debate,” in a statement.

  愛因斯坦寫道：“對我而言，

  上帝這個詞只不過是人類弱點的

  表達和產物，聖經是一系列可敬

  但仍然純粹原始的傳說，

  這些傳說不過相當幼稚。”

 愛因斯坦著名的“上帝的信”有望在拍賣會上拍出100萬美元

“任何解釋，無論多麼微妙，都無法改變（對我而言）這件事，”

 他總結道。

 愛因斯坦是德國出生的猶太人，他也承認自己對猶太人的愛和

 共同的身份，但稱猶太教“像所有其他宗教一樣……是原始迷信

 的化身。”

 他寫道：“我很高興屬於猶太人，我覺得他們的思想深深地紮根

 在他們身上，但對我來說，與所有其他民族沒有任何不同的

 尊嚴。”

  嘉士德圖書和手稿高級專家彼得·克拉內特在一份

  聲明中將這封信描述為“宗教與科學辯論中的權威

  陳述之一”。

           Peter Klarnet, a senior specialist in books and 

           manuscripts at Christie’s, described the letter as

           “ one of the definitive statements in the religion

            vs science debate,” in a statement.

       嘉士德圖書和手稿高級專家彼得·克拉內特

                在一份聲明中將這封信描述為

       “ 宗教與科學辯論中的權威陳述之一 ”。

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/us/einstein-

god-letter-christies-auction-scli-intl/index.html

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