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.

 对我而言，上帝这个词不过是人类弱点的表现和产物，

《圣经》就是其中享有盛名但相当原始传说的汇编。

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.

 在两位客户在电话上进行了四分钟的竞标后， 

 这封信在周二的总价达到了 2,892,500 美元，

 创下了爱因斯坦信函的世界拍卖纪录。

“ 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.

  爱因斯坦写道：“对我而言，

  上帝这个词只不过是人类弱点的

  表达和产物，圣经是一系列可敬

  但仍然纯粹原始的传说，

  这些传说不过相当幼稚。”

 爱因斯坦著名的“上帝的信”有望在拍卖会上拍出100万美元

“任何解释，无论多么微妙，都无法改变（对我而言）这件事，”

 他总结道。

 爱因斯坦是德国出生的犹太人，他也承认自己对犹太人的爱和

 共同的身份，但称犹太教“像所有其他宗教一样……是原始迷信

 的化身。”

 他写道：“我很高兴属于犹太人，我觉得他们的思想深深地扎根

 在他们身上，但对我来说，与所有其他民族没有任何不同的

 尊严。”

  嘉士德图书和手稿高级专家彼得·克拉内特在一份

  声明中将这封信描述为“宗教与科学辩论中的权威

  陈述之一”。

           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.

       嘉士德图书和手稿高级专家彼得·克拉内特

                在一份声明中将这封信描述为

       “ 宗教与科学辩论中的权威陈述之一 ”。

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

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

    奴隶进行曲  1876