Are most people with Asperger's Atheists?

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Are most people with Asperger's Atheists? What religion are you? Why are some of you Atheists? What made you decide to become an Atheist?

No.

There may be a higher proportion of atheists among Aspies, but "most" is probably over stating it.

I am.

"Atheism" means to lack a belief in a god(s).

I see absolutely no reason to believe in a god(s), either personally or empirically; therefore, I don't.

When someone asks, I ask if they want the long answer or the short answer. The short answer is that I'm an atheist. The long answer is that I'm technically agnostic because while I don't believe anything that the established man-made religions tell us, and I think that the entire concept of God as we know it/Him is ridiculous, I do believe in the possibility that there's something out there that's beyond all human comprehension. As for people with AS tending to be atheists, I've said before in another topic that if it's true, it's likely due to the fact that we tend to think in rational and logical terms, and religion mixes with logic about as well as oil and water.

I wouldn't say that most people with asperger's are atheist, a large percentage maybe but then that's true of all people not just aspies.

I'm Pagan-Atheist - I'm religious but do not believe in divine beings (gods) as such and recognise religion to be of human construct.

I can't speak for most, but I am of the viewpoint that the supernatural belongs in fiction. Fun to fantasize about, and a great plot device, but clearly not descriptive of the reality we live in. As such, I am, by any useful definition of the word, an atheist. (There have, colloquially as well as politically, been definitions of god that don't imply anything supernatural, such as hyperbolically referring to a talented human being as a god, or the legally defined godhood of certain emperors, and by these definitions an atheist would have to deny the existence of Julius Caesar or John Lennon, but for the sake of simplicity I tend to exclude non-supernatural definitions and capable-of-dying-of-old-age definitions, and categorize myself as an atheist.)

I'm Catholic, but I was an Atheist for a long time, mainly because my parents aren't religious so I was never raised religiously. The strange thing though despite my parents being Atheist/Agnostic was the fact that there was still always a Bible in the house and I went to Church of England schools until I was around 8 years old.
Also something I find quite interesting was that one of the junior schools I went to was called St Bede's, St Bede was a Catholic historian and is the patron saint of historians and I'm now studying history at university.

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I'm an atheist because I do not believe in god and I find religion boring. I don't understand it. I think it's all made up because of too many contradictions in it so that tells me god doesn't exist and it's just all beliefs and made up. Some people think there is more than one god while I was taught there is only one. Plus how did god make me? My parents made me, all it took was for them to have sex and the sperm and egg met and that was how I was conceived. God didn't decide that my mom would have three kids, she decided that herself. She decided she was too old to have kids so she had her tubes tied and she could have adopted or tried to but never did if she and dad wanted more kids. God doesn't give us food, we buy it and people grow it and sell it and factories make food too and ship it. How is god responsible for that? And also the bible has left out dinosaurs when I read it. It only mentioned how he created earth and the trees and flowers and two people. What about dinosaurs and other creatures that lived before humans?

So that is why I do not believe in god.

I worship the internet

I am an Atheist. I believe in what I can see, I don't believe in a heaven or hell, just resting in peace (although that heaven and hell concept does inspire many creative people). And most religions are not very original if you think about it. All hail the sun god! Yeah, I enjoyed watching Zeitgeist. It cleared up some of my doubts so that I am no longer confused about what I believe in. But I still know right from wrong and I believe in karma, which can be a real b**** sometimes. To me, religions are sometimes entertaining works of fiction.

Must someone ask this question every other week?

In all seriousness , I am one, and I think instead of most people with AS being atheists, its closer to 50-50.

I tend to find both sides to be incredibly annoying. So I consider myself as "no assocation" or for people who don't like complex terms "agnostic".