We cann all change our preferences, and/or opinions, and indeed, convictions!
I don’t have a problem with Einstein as a Jew, believing in the God of the Bible!
Or, at the very least, I don’t see as far away from the truth!
George Sylvester Viereck, “What Life Means to Einstein,”
The Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929.
As early as December of 1940, in an article published in Time magazine, the renowned Nobel Prize winning physicist Albert Einstein, himself a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, paid tribute to the moral “courage” of Pope Pius and the Catholic Church in opposing “the Hitlerian onslaught” on liberty:
Being a lover of freedom, when the Nazi 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 Catholic Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing the 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.
Historians have a difficult time pinpointing any one source for the demented Hitler and his anti-Semitism appears suddenly around the time of his infamous book, and yet you “know” these things?
Now, though the scale of Christian persecution can’t be compared to the Jewish Holocaust of 1941-1945, except perhaps in Poland, the ultimate destruction of Christianity was one of Hitler’s pet projects starting in 1933
Albert Einstein said, after the war, “Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.”
“I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. [Albert Einstein, letter, 1954]”