“It’s true that I made a statement which corresponds approximately with the text you quoted. I made this statement during the first years of the Nazi regime– much earlier than 1940– and my expressions were a little more moderate.”

The last remark is a vague qualification and one would have wished he had clarified it further.

After getting the authenticity of the quote wrong will you now interpret the last clause to make yourself right nonetheless? May I feel you brilliant and righteous brain?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk_-0UiiauU

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/200706A19.html

Einstein as he mentioned, was not interested in the Church before, yes as most Jews, he distrusted the Church, understandable from the way Jews have been treated by that same Church, but thats why he mentions specifically in those now “doubted” phrases, and I quote : “Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church”

My two cents anyway.

But the real complot thinker, is able to deny anything: some don’t believe we’ve reached the moon; some deny the Holocaust; some deny Hitler was responsable for the Holocaust; some deny that Pius XII helped the jews.
Listen for instance tot a mister William Harwood (on internet): “Pope Pius XII, who was Hitler’s full partner in the Final Solution”; but for most reasonable people he illustrates his way of thinking by adressing, in the same sentence “Mother Theresa, a lying, thieving hypocrite who raised millions of dollars by pretending that it would be used to feed the hungry”. That’s clarifying, for most people. Other’s have probably found a new devil: Mother Theresa.

A recent Antiques Roadshow episode uncovered a letter from Einstein that affirms the authenticity of a quote attributed to Einstein. The quote appeared in Time Magazine in 1940. The letter was appraised in August 2007. Einstein was quoted as saying:

“Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks… Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.”

The exact wording of Einstein’s response when questioned about the quote, as it appears in his letter in this video is:
“It’s true that I made a statement which corresponds approximately with the text you quoted. I made this statement during the first years of the Nazi regime– much earlier than 1940– and my expressions were a little more moderate.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk_-0UiiauU

But I get the feeling this ‘skeptic’ is so anti-Catholic, so despises the Church, as Einstein admits to once doing, that he won’t accept even Einstein’s confirmation. Whatever…