If people believe comforting lies over disturbing truths, why do conspiracy theorists believe disturbing lies? Because the idea of sinister elites controlling everything, whilst scary, is still more comforting than the truth: that no one is in control and everyone is an idiot.
That quote is not actually about God though; it's a metaphor for the absurdity of the stochasticism inherent in the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics. With that said, I agree that theocrats are often talented at exploiting the hunger for conspiracy theories.
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Yes. Einstein was an atheist. But he spent a lot of time trying to shoot down the “wink and measure” Copenhagen Interpretation. Many World’s Interpretation better but runs into its own absurdities. For the time being go with the instrumentalist view “Shut up and calculate”.
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