A God who rewards and punishes is inconceivable to him for the simple reason that a man’s actions are determined by necessity, external and internal, so that in God’s eyes he cannot be responsible, any more than an inanimate object is responsible for the motions it goes through.
 Albert Einstein, The world as I see it (1949). copy citation

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Author Albert Einstein
Source The world as I see it
Topic action necessity
Date 1949
Language English
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