Christianity and AS

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Well put it this way, the reason I believe in god is because he spoke to me, I heard his voice, and I don't hallucinate voices . . . only music. And that's probably a result of being a long-standing music major.

That, I figure if a religion says that we should love everyone and treat everyone fairly, then I'll follow it. Why not abide by the main concepts? Thou shalt not judge? Hello? Most of us have been judged pretty damn harshly by other people all our lives.

God says do not judge.

I am an aspie and I try to follow that, because I've seen what happens when people ignore the rule. That and I've been on the receiving end of way too much judging, so I know that I don't want to be one of the ones doing that.

God says love everyone, not everyone except . . .

Certain sects of every religion out there have a list of who to hate, or who they have a right to judge based on random arbitrary meaning.

Plenty of people claim to love everyone, "even gays," as someone I knew told me once, thinking himself self-righteous for the proclamation, but those same people quaver when really put to the test with people who do things that they don't like, or people who don't respect them back, or maybe people that they just find difficult and strange. Ooo, Aspies.

Ultimately, here's my aspie take on Christianity:

Aspies need to treat and love NTs equally, as well as other aspies . . .

and

NTs need to treat and love aspies equally, as well as other NTs . . .

I like the branches of Christianity that focus on God's unconditional love, and not on his wrath.

It's referring to people when it says not to judge. We're not to make judgements of people.

God writes the story lines of life.

I have no worthwhile father figure in my life. God is neither male nor female, but represents all of us.

I think what you're thinking of is organized religion. No, I do not need organized religion. But I do converse with the story teller, and ask for support and strength of will. And there are times that I have not had the will, but I have continued to exist regardless.

I do not believe in luck. Life is composed of choices. There is possibility for everyone if they can cognate at some level. It just depends on the choices made.

For me, religion is the hidden ties that connect us all to one another. The story teller writes the setting, the action, the ending . . . the people make the choices within the setting and basic outline. We are all connected. We are all part of one another. What you do to one, you do to all, because somewhere at some point someone will experience the same thing once again.

We have the experiences we have because they are the means by which we can use to communicate with other people. Certain experiences create people who only speak in certain languages: cognitively, mentally, socially, emotionally, physically . . . not everyone learns the same way, not everyone thinks the same way. When we are given different and more challenging situations to face, then we are given a chance to be able to communicate better with someone, someday, that we would have no other viable connection to otherwise.

I am god. I write the story of my own life.


There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You have to live before you can die.

You cannot limit Xe (S/He) with life.

You paint the picture; god supplies the colors.

God is Mr. Is. I'll stick with calling him a guy just for ease. He cannot be limited by description. He is too much to be described.

I know because there were times when I should not have lived, but still do. I know because I believe in the physicalities of the world. I believe that when I get up in the morning, up is still up and down is still down, and in certain parts of the world, water swirls counterclockwise down the drain, and in other parts, water swirls clockwise.

I believe in god because he believes in me.