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362. What kind of God is it for which you can describe no attributes?

As far as I can tell, Einstein only rejected the term "atheist" because he, perhaps suffering from the same prejudices about the word many others do, associated the word with having no sense of wonder and awe about the mysteries of the universe, with absolute denial of the existence of a deity of any sort (as opposed to mere lack of belief in one), and with uncharitable attitudes toward religion (which, while common among atheists, aren't part of the definition of atheism).

The latter is somewhat ironic, since Einstein used words like "naive" and "childlike" to describe very common (perhaps the most common) views of God.

If we're going to call Einstein's views "Deism", it's a form of Deism that consists mostly of a love for the poetic flare of the word "God" and a desire not to be associated with negative perceptions of atheism. I'll give you that you have shown me a use of the word "intelligence" by Einstein in association with the concept of God of which I had been unaware, but even there, especially in context of all else Einstein has said on the subject, it seems again a poetic use of a word, meant to convey Einstein's appreciation for a deep beauty and complexity that he felt he only dimly grasp and understand.

For all but the most abstracted "believers", looking to Einstein for some sense of validation for their own beliefs, or putting Einstein forward as an example to show that this really smart man was a believer "just like" they are believers too, is either a terrible misunderstanding of what Einstein has said about God, or just desperation.