From Albert Einstein (1879-1955), theoretical physicist, his response to atheist Alfred Kerr in the winter of 1927, who after deriding ideas of God and religion at a dinner party in the home of the publisher Samuel Fischer, had queried him “I hear that you are supposed to be deeply religious” as quoted in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971) by H. G. Kessler:
Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
I respect Einstein’s view, and, to some extent, share it. Nonetheless, the Abrahamic notion that the whole of the Cosmos – vast and ancient as it is now known to be – is informed of anything even remotely resembling a human mind, consciousness, or personality is just such puerile arrogance, such pathetic hubris, that that alone should be sufficient cause for any rational person to utterly reject it.