ReLiGiOuS ViEwS

Even though I was raised Jewish I did not believe in Judaism. I simply admired the beauty of nature and the universe. This is what I once wrote in a letter, dated March 24, 1954, "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
I also made a response to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein of the International Synagogue in New York which read, "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings."
I also expressed my admiration for Buddhism which I said had the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future.