A New Religion Specifically Designed - Autism/Aspie Friendly

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I think people make the mistake of assuming anyone who is religious is also a fundamentalist. They just make the most noise. There are plenty of religious people that believe in evolution and don't believe the world was created in 6 days. They are called e-d-u-c-a-t-e-d.

Who would we worship? Some well known ancient person who is now suspected to have an ASD? It all sounds a bit silly to me, I wouldn't be a part of it. For those who chose to follow it it would probably isolate them even further from people.

the whole worship adore thing gives me the creeps.

Why do you have to worship anyone in particular. Why can't people just worship God? In terms of doctrinal issues, such a religion would have to be plastic enough for people to express their individuality.

The Unitarian - Universalist church for example doesn't require anyone to "convert".

I agree-someone wrote a book called God Without Religion-I don't know who but I'd like to read it.

May I point out that believing that the world was made in six days doesn't necessarily mean six normal days, but could mean a more arbitrary period of time taken to mean a day? The beginning of Genesis has been considered metaphorical by the Catholic church for quite some time. Everything up to Abraham, I think? But anyways, it would say it was made in six days rather than "six periods of time" or something silly-sounding like that. Not to mention that so much of it is really just too big for words at all, let alone translations of words. What a word, phrase, story, etc., meant in the original language and cultural context is not necessarily what it seems to mean today.

Hmm, I think there was one that was the opposite, too.. Religion Without God... or was it Religion Without Belief? Lol, maybe both.

Agreed but I think the fundamentalists are thinking 6 24 hour days. So much has been affected by difficulty in translation. Apparently when the Gospels were translated into Greek the closest they could come to a translation for young unmarried woman was the Greek word for virgin. Also check out Mithras-son of god-born of a virgin-rose 3 days after death-predates Christianity.