Any Christian Aspies?

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Former Christian... and I wish I still was one but I don't see reason enough to believe. I'm planning to start studying the Bible and see how it checks out historically and then some other major religions and we'll see what happens. I'm definitely not hostile to it or its adherents though and I've had a pretty good overall experience with the people in my life who claim to be Christians.

I used to be a Christian. It served well at a particular point in my life. I have since out grown it and moved on.

I am a Christian and I would say I regularly attend one church and sometimes visit another. Some Sundays I even go to both, I like them each for different reasons. They both have really good music, and I like the pastor at my main one a lot.

I don't think ACIM is difficult to take in. Its just a mix of Christianity and new age philosophy. I just don't agree with it.

Personally, I'm not interested if it is a mix or it's not a mix of anything. It's talking about God and reality - not exactly going to get points for complete originality, is it. I mean, by its own admission, it's not covering new ground.

Maybe 'take in' is the wrong expression - perhaps 'accept' is more appropriate.

I find a lot of it makes sense to me, in the way that I have seen it, and the way that I have experienced life. Depends how you take it in, where you are in your life, and depends how you see it. I think the vast majority of people would reject it - so be it. If my experiences were so, and I had read it years ago, I might have dismissed it as being another attempt to mislead. And maybe I might have more insight and dismiss it in the future, who knows.

Christian, but I hate what often passes for Christian 'culture' these days. Usually this 'culture' is a blend of Republicanism and cheesey 'wholesome' bastard versions of whatever the secular folks are doing.

I don't agree with what you're doing here. You can't redeem the image of Christianity this way. Not by hiding from it and identifying yourself some other way, not by pointing and tattling and saying "Yeah I'm a Christian, but I'm not like THOSE Christians", not by ignoring the problem. Stand up, be seen and known and judged and stereotyped, and prove people wrong. Only by acting to represent Christianity properly will you remove that negative connotation.

I had to laugh when I read this. I see "Christianity" in the US as 80% liberal, ritual and inertial activity that would evaporate in a second if there were any real persecution. The other 20% of Christianity I see as various forms of trying to do or be good. This usually involves hitting each other over the head with various rules and voting Republican.

I was raised LCMS Lutheran and lost interest in my teens. When I was 30 I read the Bible and slowly started to find my way closer to Jesus. The problem was that churches usually interfere with this process.

For example, we visited one church and struck up a conversation with an elderly lady at the fringe of the usual bustle of church activity and I asked her how she was doing financially. She admitted that things were a little difficult and we were able to help hel a little. What struck me was that she had attended the church for over 30 years and even her best friend did not know she was having trouble. I am sure the church leaders would have been angry at her for not telling them of her difficulty. But to me, this highlights the problem with churches, they are by definition organizational and run as systems when Christianity was always intended to be relational and reflect the actions of individuals.

I am Christian and if I can answer any questions for anyone, please feel free to PM me.

I have been a Catholic all my life. However, I wish a Catholic church that was only a few blocks from my house didn't become part of a retirement community in the early 2000s. I had my First Communion there. My family and I had to attend services at the Catholic church we attend services at to this day.

However, at the Catholic church we currently attend services at, I have been an usher for the past 3 years, even though I have had to deal with:

-Shallow 1 percenters, in terms of personality.

-The d-bag male lead singer of the choir, who believes people with ASDs are "natural sinners."

-A rude middle aged couple who believe in prayer over medicine.

-A creepy elderly woman, who often tries to grab my hand while reciting the Lord's Prayer.

To be clear, when my sister and I were younger, we were OK with holding hands during the Lord's Prayer, but our mother kept telling us off for holding her hands too tightly. Now, my mom sits close to the altar, my sister sits in the back of the church, and I usually sit in the middle.

Overall, being an usher has been a great experience. It has helped improve my social skills, though my mom often tells me to never talk to anyone from the parish.

I love Jesus because he made that sacrifice on the cross for my sins. I accept him as my savior.
I like to go to church because our church is really fun to go to, we sing songs about God and the lectures are great.