new quotes    |  |    + post +    |    about    |    register  [login]
people   all 168 names »
sources   all 350 titles »
tags
Albert Einstein   BIO »   14 sources by this author »
quotes (186)    
(0)
    
afterlife  america  american  art  atomic-bomb  atomic-energy  authority  autocracy  balance  beauty  bicycle  bomb  bureaucracy  capitalism  celebrity  christianity  coincidence  communism  community  competition  computer  concept  conscience  cosmos  courage  creation  creativity  crime  crudity  danger  death  democracy  discovery  economy  education  emotion  enemy  energy  epistemology  equality  equation  ethic  evil  example  existence  experience  experiment  expression  feeling  fool  free-will  freedom  gandhi  genius  germany  god  golden-ratio  goodness  government  gravitation  harmony  health  hiroshima  history  holism  human  humanity  idea  illusion  imagination  individualism  influence  innovation  italy  japanese  jesus-christ  jew  judaism  justice  knowledge  life  light  logic  love  mass  materialism  mathematics  military  miracle  mistake  modesty  money  morality  mysterious  mystery  nature  need  observation  opinion  opposition  pacifism  passion  patriotism  peace  people  philosophy  physics  pipe  planck  play  politics  prejudice  problem  problem-solving  prohibition  prophet  punishment  quantum-mechanics  reading  reality  reason  relativity  religion  research  responsibility  reward  roosevelt  russia  school  science  scientist  sharing  simple  skepticism  smart  smoking  socialism  society  socks  solitude  speculation  spinoza  spirit  stupidity  success  swiss  system  technology  theory  thinking  tolerance  truth  trying  universe  value  vegetarianism  violence  war  wealth  weapon  wisdom  work  world
A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for the adherent of another religion but usually it does not stop there. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. However, hatred then leads to persecution when the might of the majority is behind it. In the case of a Christian clergyman, the tragic-comical is found in this: that the Christian religion demands love from the faithful, even love for the enemy. This demand, because it is indeed superhuman, he is unable to fulfill. Thus intolerance and hatred ring through the oily words of the clergyman. The love, which on the Christian side is the basis for the conciliatory attempt towards Judaism is the same as the love of a child for a cake. That means that it contains the hope that the object of the love will be eaten up... Letter to Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago's Anshe Emet Congregation.
posted: julie
   saved: 
25 
If one purges the Judaism of the Prophets and Christianity as Jesus Christ taught it of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests, one is left with a teaching which is capable of curing all the social ills of humanity. It is the duty of every man of good will to strive steadfastly in his own little world to make this teaching of pure humanity a living force, so far as he can.
posted: julie
   saved: 
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior. Reply to a Roman Catholic student urging him to pray to Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and convert to Christianity.
posted: julie
   saved: