Aspies & Religion

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One of my first obssessions as achild was dinosaurs, and apparantly I told my parents that God couldn't exist, because there was no mention of dinosaurs in the bible, yet my books had photographs of fossils in them. I maintained that standpoint for a very long time, but now I feel that it is not my place to judge the faith of others, so I choose to accept that everyone is entitled to believe what they want to. The only part that irks me is the type of religion that makes life and death decisions for you, and not letting you make them yourself.

That being said, I believe in fate and destiny, not coincidence and luck. It's a hard concept for some to accept, but I feel that everything happens for a reason, like my AS. If I let myself consider that there is no reason at all for the way I am, then I would find things harder to take.

Most recently, although it is an interest at the moment, I'm looking into the religions of old, Norse, Greek and Roman, Egyptian, Gaelic Pagan, because an incredible amount of imagination went into the descriptions of the gods and the stories around them.

On an interesting side note, apparantly some Christian thinkers feel that yoga is evil. Riiight...

You don't have to adhere to a religion to live a fulfilling spiritual existence.

You can live a moral life because you know it's right, instead of because some book cobbled together from various Iron Age authors (espousing Iron Age values that are hopelessly outdated to modern society) told you those are the rules. If you act morally merely because you are following a law and not because it's the right thing to do, you are no better a person than one who acts immorally.

You can discover what is right through experience and do it because you know deep down that it's right to act for others, instead of doing it to earn eternal bliss for yourself. If you act morally to gain a personal reward, you are no better than a person who acts immorally.

You can find your own personal spirituality rather than trying to cram your beliefs into the stifling, narrow box of religion. You can forge your own path rather than be a follower who doesn't have to think for him/herself. It' incredibly fulfilling.

I am so sorry to hear about your experiences you will find in all religions some strange people who would say things and do things that are strange those people are not serious believers.

I don't think anyone on this forum has mentioned Buddhism - have they? If you are Buddhist you can be at peace and be loved! I am practising Buddhism but I'm not doing very well.

I became very interested in mineral collecting (thus my nickname). I read allot of mineral books from communist Czechoslovakia (translated into English) and I feel that I owe these mineral book for increasing my skepticism of religion. I am atheist. In fact, Czechoslovakia was quite clever. Unlike other Soviet era communist countries they did not oppress religion, they gave their population an excellent science education, published lots of astronomy and geology books and people developed their own ideas.

I believe that religion is a thought virus - a infection that affects the minds of people.

Science is corrosive to religious belief.


The riddle of Epicurus

If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to
Then He is not omnipotent.

If He is able, but not willing
Then He is malevolent.

If He is both able and willing
Then whence cometh evil?

If He is neither able nor willing
Then why call Him God?


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