> The following news was on CBC on May 15,2008:

> http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/05/15/einstein-lett
> er.html
> {
> Einstein letter dismissing God sells for
> $330,000 US
> Last Updated: Thursday, May 15, 2008 | 5:19 PM ET
> CBC News
> A letter written by Albert Einstein in which he
> dismissed belief in God as a “product of human
> weaknesses” was auctioned off Thursday for more than
> $330,000 US, destroying previous selling records of
> letters by the renowned physicist.

> The letter, written in German in 1954 to philosopher
> Eric Gutkind, was sold in London, England, by
> Bloomsbury Auctions to a private collector. It had
> initially been expected to fetch between $12,000 US
> and $16,000 US.

> “It beats the world record for an Einstein letter by
> about four times," managing director Rupert Powell
> told the Guardian newspaper. "It's a massive
> difference."

> In the letter, Einstein writes "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."

> Einstein, who was Jewish, also rejects the notion
> that Jews were God’s chosen people
> "For me, the Jewish religion like all other religions
> is an incarnation of the most childish
> superstitions,"

> he wrote.

> He added that "the Jewish people to whom I gladly
> belong, and with whose mentality I have a deep
> affinity, have no different quality for me than all
> other people.

> “As far as my experience goes, they are also no
> better than other human groups, although they are
> protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power.
> Otherwise, I cannot see anything 'chosen' about
> them."

> Einstein's religious and spiritual beliefs have been
> the subject of much speculation by both believers and
> skeptics.}

> Well, such an understanding demonstrates that he had
> an overall narrow viewpoint about the universe.

> I imagine he was possibly out of his mind a year
> before his death.

> Dr.M.Basti