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As regards religion, on the other hand, one is generally agreed that it deals with goals and evaluations and, in general, with the emotional foundation of human thinking and acting, as far as these are not predetermined by the inalterable hereditary disposition of the human species. Religion is concerned with man’s attitude toward nature at large, with the establishing of ideals for the individual and communal life, and with mutual human relationship. These ideals religion attempts to attain by exerting an educational influence on tradition and through the development and promulgation of certain easily accessible thoughts and narratives (epics and myths) which are apt to influence evaluation and action along the lines of the accepted ideals.
Replying to the Liberal Ministers’ Club of New York City. Published in >The Christian Register, (Jun 1948). As given in Albert Einstein, Cal Seelig (ed.) and Sonja Bargmann (trans., ed.), Ideas and Opinions (1954, 2010), 50.