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Article: Misquoting Einstein: a statement attributed to Einstein, praising the Church's response to Nazism isn't what it claims to be.
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- Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
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- September 22, 2005
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IN 2005 WE CELEBRATED THE CENTENNIAL OF Einstein's greatest work--not just relativity but also his analysis of Brownian motion and the quantum explanation of the photoelectric effect. So it seems like a good time to examine another achievement attributed to him: did he lavishly praise the Church for its opposition to Nazism?
There is a widely reproduced statement, attributed to Einstein, in which he enthusiastically praises the Church. As far as I have been able to find, this statement first appeared in Time magazine, December 23, 1940 (page 38). (1) "The best tribute to the spirit of Germany's Christians comes from a Jew and an agnostic (Time, Sept. 23)--the ...
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