Guest Post: Tom Levenson on Einstein, Religion, and Jewishness

For his final guest post, Tom looks at a topic right up our alley: Einstein's thoughts about religion. The difference being that he knows what he's talking about, having written a book on Einstein. Many thanks to Tom for chipping in this week. His previous posts are here and here, and don't forget the Inverse Square Blog. --------------------------------------- The Jewishness of Albert Einstein. I’m a bit late to this particular party, but I hear that there was a bit of a media and blog hullabaloo about a letter by Albert Einstein that was auctioned last month for 170,000 pounds. That doubles the previous record for an Einstein letter, and at least part of the reason for its record price seems to have been its content -- what seemed to some a startlingly blunt assessment of religion in general. He wrote: