Einstein and Socrates - NOT atheists !

 I said I would do my homework on the question. I must conclude
that our village atheist, David Champagne -whom I can only respect - is
wrong about Einstein and Socrates being " atheists " ( Projo letter, July
28 )
      " I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly
harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate
and actions of human beings. " See Ronald W. Clark's " Einstein: The
Life and Times  " , page 502 .
       The 1996 Encyclopedia Americana says this about Socrates :
 " Socrates did claim supernatural guidance from a ' divine sign ' -
a kind of voice ... "  ( see Socrates, page 166 ).
       Today the most militant atheists are the Chinese communists.
  But I still suspect that they believe in the divinity of Central
  Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.