Einstein letter

I had a quick look at an article about a letter that Albert Einstein wrote a year or so before his death where he referred to God and scripture in disparaging ways. People have leaped onto this, just as they have on his previous favorable comments about God when he was younger.

Are you all total idiots? Do you not understand that even a genius like Einstein goes through phases of life and thought too? It's like you have been glued so much to TV that you think everyone is cut out of celluloid at birth and just gets wrinkles needing botox as they age. You have no concept of how people have cycles and moods throughout their lives, and have moments of feeling one way or the other about many things, including God. Einstein had relationships with people, including a woman, near the end of his life that he did not have in his earlier days. His day to day involvements would also inform his mood about God. When people, even geniuses, have challenging personal situations, they start to look for wiggle room in their belief in God and his instructions for humans as expressed in the scriptures. Who cannot understand that? Goodness. I really despair of where human insight and intelligence has gone.