Albert Einstein’s infamous ‘god letter’ just sold for a whopping $2.9 million

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It’s not often that a mere piece of paper will be worth a few million dollars. But when it’s a letter written by Albert Einstein about how God is a “product of human weaknesses,” a multimillion-dollar price tag is exactly what you get.
A document written by the iconic, Nobel Prize-winning physicist that’s known as the “God letter” just sold at Christie’s auction house in New York for a whopping $2.9 million.
According to Christie’s, this is a “remarkably candid, private letter” that “most fully articulated expression of his religious and philosophical views.”
The 1954 letter, written a year before Einstein’s death, indeed contains his thoughts on religion, specifically his own Jewish faith. He wrote the letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, who wrote a book entitled Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt, which discussed Judaism and scientific study, according to CBS News. Einstein didn’t agree with Gutkind about the role that God and religion play in an individual’s life. He said that the book was “written in a language which is inaccessible to me.” The most sensational revelation that the letter contains is Einstein’s renouncement of God. In the letter, Einstein wrote:
“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this.” Einstein included his own Jewish faith in his rejection of religion as well, writing:
“For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstition… As far as my experience goes, they are in fact no better than other human groups, even if they are protected from the worst excesses by a lack of power.
Otherwise I cannot perceive anything ‘chosen’ about them.”
This isn’t the first time that the letter has gone up for sale. It first sold back in 2008 at a London auction house for $404,000. The “God letter” then resurfaced in 2012 on eBay with a starting bidding price of $3 million, although it appears that it did not sell at the time.