Acknowledgement: Google reveals to me that someone else has been here before. I am also thankful for the site in question, Caliibre, for pointing me to this quote from one of Albert Einstein’s letters:

The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.

The reason I like this quote is not because it is particularly nuanced or well-argued, but because Einstein is frequently misrepresented as a religious apologist and this statement emphatically puts that to rights. I’m not entirely sure why the “(to for me)” was added (not by Caliibre, I may point out). It seems to me to be an attempt to diminish the strength of Einstein’s statement so as not to offend delicate religious sentiments…which is an example of exactly why the quotation is needed.