” I am still baffled that people look to Einstein for wisdom on this topic.”

Einstein’s “wisdom” is just as good as any other’s. After all we’re talking about opinions on the subject of mythical beings credited with all sorts of unexplainable magical powers and acts. It is a good assumption that Einstein gave a great deal of thought and consideration to the subject (as did many others of his contemporaries), just as he gave thought to other questions that had occupied mankind since prehistoric times, such as the true shape of physical reality.

You also said: “He lived at the same time, but did not personally experience the Holocaust.”

While it’s true that Einstein left Germany for the US in 1933, spending the Holocaust years in relative safety, it’s also true that he had many friends, associates, and relatives who lived and died in that nightmare. To say that he did not personally experience feelings of dread and helplessness knowing of the fate of others would be to ascribe to him the most callous of inhuman natures.

And yet, so far as we know, he did not call upon or pray to a religious fantasy to save those hopeless ones. This may say more than anything else about how deeply he understood the true nature of reality.

Apparently, someone did (least we were told so by someone who was there—or someone who knew someone who was there……

Anyway, guy had a heart attack. Died. Paramedics brought him back. He gained consciousness long enough to say, “Don’t let me die! I’m in hell! I’m in hell!”. They lost him again, brought him back, told them to keep him alive as he kept going to hell. One paramedic said, Ask God for forgiveness, so the guy did, “died” again, and when he stabilized yet again, he could only remember being in heaven and couldn’t remember any of the trips to hell. So apparently hell is so bad you block it out of our mind and when you are in it, you’d rather have people cracking your rib cage for you than go back.

And that was the story we were told way back when we were oh so young. Haven’t heard that story since which is unusual because these type of stories reach urban legend status over a large area. Wonder why that one didn’t spread…..??……

I didn’t find it to be so great.

“Despite the dramatic events in the world that he both lived through (e.g. the Holocaust)”

He lived at the same time, but did not personally experience the Holocaust.

“The clearest of those here is Einstein’s critique of religion as “childish.””

This is clearly a misinterpretation. The quote from Einstein refers to the legends in the Bible as “childish,” not religion in general.

You can search on ‘Einstein’ and my name to find criticism of an essay Einstein published on the topic of science and religion, in which he made multiple mistakes in a single paragraph. I am still baffled that people look to Einstein for wisdom on this topic.

Like she did it all by her own motivation, and the cops did not lean on her to fulfill their quota – riiiiight.

The entire war-on-drugs and prison-industrial-police-state-complex is rotten to core – but go ahead and vote people in who are “tough on crime”. Yeah, right.