How attractive would religion be if there were no heaven attached to it?

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't realize Einstein had anything to do with Creationism. He was a believer though, so point taken

Here is Einstein on his belief: "It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem—the most important of all human problems."

Calling him a believer may not be totally wrong, but it is certainly misleading. He called himself an agnostic.

Note: This is from Wikipedia, but with a citation for the quote.

PS I don't mean to quote Einstein as an expert on religion. I think he was expressing a personal viewpoint, not intending to tell anyone else what to believe, although it happens to describe my beliefs with more eloquence than I could muster.

PP here. I didn't mean to mislead anyone (hense the reference to Creationism). E. not being a militant denier is enough for me to call him a believer.

Then, would a person not being a militant christian be enough for you to call that person a non-believer?