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Quote by: oades11 You never did though, give any feedback to my response that Einstein's view, like Spinoza's, was closer to atheism than deism. I wouldn't mind hearing what you have to say, and if I'm wrong, I absolutely welcome being corrected. That's one of the best way to learn, in my opinion. What say you?

Actually, I'm not really concerned with that. My point was that a creationist had actually told me that Einstein was a christian, not just that he believed in god. Einstein stated that his god was Spinoza's god. As I understand that, it means that nature and god are the same. I don't know if that's closer to deism or atheism. I usually see it called pantheism. But on the other hand, Jefferson and his "Nature and Nature's God" is pretty close, and nobody denies that Jefferson was a deist.