The fundybots are at it again at NCSSM...

[Naruto]

Some of you may remember my thread (http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=103265) a while back about Imago Dei (a sort of fundy cabal) sponsoring a bullshit ID-iot to come and talk here. Well, they just put up new posters around campus:

"'I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene...No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.'

-Albert Einstein, physicist and atheist"

I googled some keywords, but the only sites I could find to verify this were typical apologetics without any substance. I also searched Snopes, but found nothing.

Whether the quote is true or not, Einstein wasn't an atheist, so I'm going to yell at someone over that. But I would like to have a credible source verify or deny this quote first. Any help would be appreciated.

[Donald_McRonald]

According to this page (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showpost.php?p=864316&postcount=16), it's from George Sylvester Viereck's "What Life Means to Einstein," in
The Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929. See also http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s6681.html for the interspersed interviewer's questions:
"To what extent are you influenced by Christianity?"

"As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene."

"Have you read Emil Ludwig's book on Jesus?"

"Emil Ludwig's Jesus is shallow. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot!"

"You accept the historical existence of Jesus?"

"Unquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life."

For you own Einstein quote rebuttals or what have you, here (http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1413434819/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/102-5542874-8332119?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00L#reader-page) are some choice quotes (on the 2nd page).