AS and Christianity/Atheism

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Doing good because it is good is a higher mode of operation than doing good to avoid an imaginary eternal punishment. Once a person is dead that person is beyond reward or punishment.

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I am not godless.

I am god free.

And thank goodness for that.

Religion is for the superstitious and the gullible.

I listen to K-Love! For kicks.
That sh*t is fascinating. Sometimes, I forget they're serious.

Theist and AS, and I try to be non-religious, having been a victim of bigotry and harassment from members of each of the three main Abramic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam).

I live in the suburbs of Houston. I am a liberal atheist vegetarian.

Well I went from atheist to a kind of panentheistic deist over time. I see direct, conscious experience as the true foundation of reality, all experiences are a mutual reflection of every other experience (you're a distant echo of me and visa versa), love is realizing your interconnectedness to a person or object, all things in reality are interconnected, so the ultimate awareness is ultimate love, and the sense of disconnection and alienation to your surroundings is the ultimate illusion since you're, in actuality, an intrinsic part of it. So therefore God (the totality of all conscious experience and awareness) is love.

The reason I think love is the most valued emotion to us as humans is because its a holographic reflection of the ultimate reality. Every feeling of connection, hope, and peace, is a glimmer of truth shining through from behind the veil of illusion were born into. This existence of suffering and attachment were in amounts to a house of mirrors so that conscious experience doesn't get bored with itself and eternity. All the pain, suffering, and anguish we experience, in the end, only compliments and gives more meaning to love. The only reason I think there's so much damage wrought into this world over attachment to possessions, people, and fear, is the illusion of disconnection and alienation is so strong that we mistake that for the true reality. In the end, though, were all one energy and singularity that will exist forever. So, I don't think this existential fear we all carry with us of not being accepted or not being loved is rational, because we are all, in the end, a pure expression of unity.

Exploring these ideas have helped me out a lot, and I find it to be logical and not just wishful thinking.

In the end, I see reality as the ultimate epic, romance, tragedy, horror, exhibition, and freak show, all rolled up into one. It is what it is, and I get the sense it has to exist for consciousness to come full circle with itself.

Aspie, American, atheist.

I stopped believing in god when I was 15. Though I'm old enough to have regrets & to rue the bad decisions of years past, this is one thing that I think I basically got right.

Where I live, atheism is unequivocally outside the bounds of acceptable opinion. So perhaps my worldview is shaped by a certain Aspie contrarianism. I've just never been the type to get my opinions in line just for the sake of keeping up appearances.

Perhaps I'm just too stuck in a rationalist mindset, but the major problem I have with religion is simply that I don't believe it. I just don't see the universe in terms of an omnipotent, omniscient supreme being who issues rewards & punishments. Also, with good reason I believe, I have come to associate religiosity with superstition, rigid traditionalism, intolerance & authoritarianism. I'm grateful that I was able to free my mind from all that.

I used to be an atheist, but now I've found true bliss as a cuddleist, as a member of the Church of Cuddles of Frederik the Crocodile.

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