"I am not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they were written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, seems to me is the altitude of even the most intelligent human towards God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand those laws." Einstein
Einstein not an atheist
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Correct, he did not consider himself an atheist.
This is a good article on his beliefs from physics.org
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/23008
Einstien also believed that nature doesn't play dice either, that nature is determined. Maybe it is, or maybe it isn't, but how could we even test such a hypothesis?
In a strange way, however, I sometimes sense "Cosmic Einstein"....maybe this is because Einstein is a god? I'll tell you what, maybe it's subconscious or something, but I get a real IQ boost every time I wear my favorite Einstein shirt, it's almost as if Einstein is talking through me and revealing all of the secrets from his intergalactic throne in the hereafter. Ludicrous? LOL!
Obviously there is a way to test that hypothesis of mine, and I don't think Einstein plays peek-a-boo either, completely testable in a scientific manner, it's the way Einstein would have wanted his presense to be, assuming it's not all natural subconscious delusion on my part. Anyhow, that's why "Cosmic Einstein" is better than all the other gods that seem to fail the "God IQ test" that I put forward.
Einstein often contradicted himself, as most men of history do, because he also said: "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion. I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic."
And also he said: "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
Whether or not he was an atheist is irrelevant, because it is obvious he was, at the very least, a skeptic and a rational person.