A manuscript by Albert Einstein in which the physicist questioned the existence of God was sold in December 2018 in New York for $ 2.89 million at an auction hosted by Christie's.
This award was a record for a letter from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1921).
In March 2002, a letter sent in 1939 to Franklin D. Roosevelt, then president of the United States, warning him of German nuclear projects, was purchased for $ 2.1 million.
While in the letter that was sold in December 2018, dated 1954, written in German and addressed to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, Einstein, the greatest physicist of the twentieth century, rejects any kind of religious belief.

He himself was a Jew who had fled Germany after the arrival of Hitler.
"The word God to me is nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, and the Bible is a collection of revered but very primitive legends," wrote the scientist from Princeton University in New Jersey a year before died in April 1955.
In this letter, the author of the theory of relativity, who died at the age of 76, does not spare Judaism either.
To me, the Jewish faith is, like any other faith, the embodiment of a primitive superstition. "While the Jewish people, to whom I belong with great pride and who I feel deeply involved in their mentality, have no form of dignity different from other peoples," he wrote.
"In my experience, they are not better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst excesses due to their lack of power. "On the contrary, I do not see anything 'selected' in them," Einstein wrote in his letter.