Albert Einstein, Age 12: Much of the Bible could Not be True. Could Not be True....True-false. True-false True-false.

Albert Einstein in "Autobiographical Notes" Writes that "Could Not be True"   
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Has it occur to Anyone that the Bible may Not be True.   

True-false?
 
True-false?

Yes-No?

Yes-No?

"When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. . . . As the first way out there was religion, which is implanted into every child by way of the traditional education-machine. Thus I came—though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents—to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.  

Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. 

 The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. . . ."