AUTISM, and religion

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Next office along from the Department of Jetpack Suppression.

I wish I had a jetpack.... One day... One day...

Make lacy curtains and throw cushions for it.

It's how we'll get to Heaven. Conversions come with 1 free jetpack to be used when kingdom come.

If you find your jetpack malfuctioning, prepare for a long fall.

Pfft, yeah like I would wait for that day to use my jetpack. I would use it on the first day. Mainly I would use it to fight Nazi's on top of a zeppelin. Or maybe to find love. Yes, I will use my jetpack to either fight Nazi's or find love.

I know, right? Apparantly listening to the scientific community with its painstaking research and its conclusion based on facts instead of a much-translated book written by humans thousands of years ago is "evil". Silly me, and here I thought evil had more to do with killing people, torturing them, other things which cause actual pain to actual people. No, now I see the error of my ways. The true root of all evil is logic!

See, this is why I can't be having with organised religeon. It has more to do with trapping people into social norms and preventing them from ever questioning anything than it has to do with morality of any sort. You can be both religeous and a good person, but being religeous does not make you a good person.

I do believe in a higher power, a cosmic creator, but one that cares what humans sleep with what other humans, or what they eat, or whether they work on a Sunday? Pfft. Such an entity would be too vast to comprehend such concerns. Our human dramas are too petty for a being which can create stars.

Atheist here.

I was raised and professed to be Christian from I was about 5 years old until I gradually started "losing faith", eventually becoming an atheist a few years ago. I only just told my parents last month and they were surprisingly ok about it.

The whole thing seems to be about control, and breeds an "us vs them" mentality, which makes Christians dislike anyone different from them. I.e. People from other religions (because theirs is the one true religion after all), gay people, etc. Plus the anti-science stance taken by some Christians is really annoying.

I'm Christian. And how is that more hardcore than Jesus being whipped (and check out WHAT they used to whip w/ back then), giant thorns dug in his head, hung on a cross from nails where the only way to breathe was to pull himself up making the nails only rip further into his flesh, plus have the weight of every man's sins, from the past, present, and future, upon him?

Deeply, resolutely, and eternally an atheist.
Very vocal about it too. Can't be nice about religion/god nonsense.

One of my biggest pet-peeves about living in the US (for now) would be its overwhelming religiosity.
I'd rather be living in Sweden, Norway, or Iceland where more than half the populations identify as atheist.

Indeed!

According to this recent survey - Recent Pew Poll on Religious Knowledge - atheists and agnostics know more about religion than any religious group.

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Yes, which is often why I wonder about many people's true faiths when they don't even know what they believe in--and oftentimes it turns out it was more a followed path due to their parents and later they either fall away b/c they never had any roots in it to begin with or they actually pursue KNOWING about their religion and make a choice about it.

I'm pretty sure Jesus as represented in the bible, suffered more than any and every other person/god/diety combined.... perhaps not the devil, since he lives in hell...

Well, according to this Wrong Planet poll - Religion (or lack thereof) and Autism/Asperger's? - two out of three (two thirds or ~66%) of aspies are atheist or agnostic. That compares to something like 10 to 20% of the population at large (here in the US - the percentage of atheists/agnostics is much higher in every other advanced country in Europe, Asia, etc.)

Christianity is a Middle Eastern religion, and many Christians have already responded, yourself included. Believe me, I'm not trying to repel anyone - I like to hear different opinions.



Ahem - he never answered any of MY many, sincere "calls". That's one of the reasons I began to question my faith - I never got any indication or feeling whatsoever that "god" or "Jesus" was hearing my prayers, let alone answering them.



How can you say Shiva does not exist? Or Odin? Or the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis? Or the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami?



Are you saying that Aspies are evil?

One word: Christinsanity

Many, many others suffered the same fate back then. Nothing special. Sorry. For that matter, thousands of people around the world RIGHT NOW are suffering equally horrific fates at the hands of authorities. Nobody gives a damn.

Incidentally, if Jesus had been executed in the electric chair, would the electric chair be the symbol of Christianity? Would Christians wear little gold electric chairs on their necklaces as a badge of their moral superiority?