Are all aspies atheists -- or is it just me?

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He proclaimed that "God" is dead, but one has to be alive to actually die.

A nihilist over here

No. But I was atheist / agnostic [depending on the day and the mood you caught me in] for a looong time. Needed to hit the right evidence.

But in my family, the one non-atheist / agnostic was my mother, who had however a very restricted belief in a terribly cramped God.

Today, the most atheist are the two most NT.

Atheist over here!

My beliefs are pretty complex. Raised Catholic (although my parents were pretty liberal and religion was something we did, but rarely talked about), fell away from the practice of the faith as a teenager, although I still identified with a lot of Catholic culture. A few years ago, I began attending an Episcopal church, which I still do sporadically (although not every week, and I never joined the congregation). I appreciate the ritual of the liturgy and the appeal to the senses that is found in Anglicanism, Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy (and, for that matter, in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sufism), and I find the rigorous logic used by theologians like Thomas Aquinas fascinating. I do have trouble believing in divine intervention or miracles. I do strongly believe in evolution, and I don't believe in a literal hell or damnation. My attachment to a Christian denomination is probably more cultural than anything else - I could probably be a Buddhist, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, or Zoroastrian, as long as it were not of a fundamentalist/close-minded/anti-scientific sort.

i doubt it, but just the same, there are those of us who could not cope without the reassuring [for us] mantra of "god is in heaven, i will be there before long."

I call myself an apatheist. I don't know if there's a god, I don't think there's a god, and I don't care one way or another. It has no impact on my life.

I'm a straight-forward atheist.

I'm unable to believe, I have no sense of a silent other within my brain, I lack god.

I'm an athiest. Not all aspies are. I have seen religious ones.

I've heard of quite a number of Christians on here (including me)

It would be like NTs, where some are atheists, and some aren't. I'm an aspie and I'm not atheist.

Personally I don't get religion. My main problem, aside from problems I have with specific religious dogmas, is that I don't think we're the sort of beings that can know the things religion offers explanations for. Practically the only means we have of knowing about the world are experiential, I don't think we can go beyond that and be sure of anything. So religious people might reply with 'faith' - but I just can't comprehend what that actually means, I can't get into that mindset.

I was raised christian, but I don't think I ever really 'got it'.

Incidentally, I forgot to clarify, I am not atheist.


I can best explain it with a number line analogy.


-1 -------------- 0 ------------ 1
Atheist - Agnostic - Faithful

I WOULD be agnostic, in the sense that I can not state honestly that I believe there is, or is not, any deity of any type.

The problem being, before I can even get to being able to consider something as a belief (which I'm unable to honestly do, excessively literal here, I can't believe something which I don't know is true), I have to consider if it logically holds together.

Most deities/religions do not hold together logically, making them more or less imaginary friends. Now, if they weren't obviously imaginary creations, I would remain agnostic to them, as there is no way to prove or disprove them currently.

As the square root of negative 1 is i, I've taken to saying I am iAgnostic, or an Imaginary Agnostic.

I can understand how someone with AS would be an athiest. I myself am Christian (Catholic with some Rastafarin beliefs) but pretty much all of my expirences with other so-called "Christians" have been negetive. I am extremlely wary of anyone who calls themself a Christian as a result. I can understand why people with AS would be athiests.

I am a Christian, mostly Protestant with some Catholic ideas. I think my father is an Aspie, though he would never admit it. He is also a Christian and has a Ph. D. in modern theology.