I saw this meme posted in an atheism group on Google+. I responded and said Einstein wasn't an atheist. and the response was, "He would have defined "God' as all that is. Even atheists would agree with that definition." God being all that is is pantheism. He wasn't a pantheist either.
I'm not an atheist, and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written these books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.
- Albert Einstein, quoted in Max Jammer, Einstein and Religion, 48.
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