On Tuesday, a very rare letter written by famed physicist and genius Albert Einstein talking about God and the Bible has been sold at an auction for a staggering amount of $2.9 million.
Christie's, the auction house that auctioned the handwritten letter from the physicist to his friend, philosopher Eric Gutkind in 1954, estimated that the letter would fetch $1.5 million before the auction.
In the letter, Einstein shared his thoughts to Gutkind and said that he did not see the Bible as anything more than a collection of 'legends' and even saw the Jewish faith as 'superstition.'
'The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses,' he wrote, 'the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends.'
He continued: 'No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can [for me] change anything about this.'
Regarding the Jewish faith, he wrote that it was in his view 'like all other religions, an incarnation of primitive superstition'.
'The Jewish people to whom I gladly belong, and in whose mentality I feel profoundly anchored, still for me does not have any different kind of dignity from all other peoples.' he said.
This is not the first time that one of Einstein's sentiments about God and faith have been shared to the public. Last week, a Bible with an inscription from the physicist was put up on auction by Sotheby's. The Bible was given to an employee by Einstein in 1932 and included a brief inscription on what the scientist thought of the book "This book is an inexhaustible source of living wisdom and consolation."
It was believed that it could fetch $300,000 at the auction but no bidder was found to buy it.
