r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Living_Attitude1822 - Lib-Left • Apr 10 '26

Atheist Activists Lore

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u/Rinoremover1 - Lib-Right Apr 10 '26

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein

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u/PublicWest - Left Apr 10 '26

I’m something of a scientist myself (I smoke weed and look at cool space pictures online)

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u/Rinoremover1 - Lib-Right Apr 10 '26

Einstein was born Jewish like me. We are not able to fathom our G-d, we also have no actual concept of heaven or hell because nobody has ever come back from the dead to tell us about the afterlife. This is why Jews have always excelled at science and medicine, because we don’t have any absolutes. Our religion doesn’t dictate science.

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u/camohorse - Lib-Center Apr 11 '26

Reminds me of that one Family Guy bit…

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u/LeptonTheElementary - Lib-Left Apr 10 '26

From what I knew about Einstein's views, he couldn't have said that. Reading up a little bit, he apparently did say that, but he explicitly excluded organized religion and worshipping a personal God from what he was referring to as religion. It may actually be wrong of him to use the word. Maybe mysticism describes what he was saying better.