People with Asperger's- are you religious or not?

The term - Logic and Faith often turn into an oxymoron...

No, I'm not religious. I have no idea, how it is to be religious. But I find religion very interesting.

I have spent a lot of time, trying to understand why and how people are religions, but I didn't find the answer.

Beliefing in something is always irrational, sicne belief is based on emotions and rationality is a method. But the only way, I can se, beliefing in a god with a minimum of irrationality, ist beliefing without trying to find logical reasons.

Because, when somebody claims to explain something with god, then also god has to be explained. An unexplainable explanation is a megical explanation and arbitrarily.

the most definitions of god I know are illogical. The "first cause" for example cannot be divine creation, since it must be an aware process. And life is addicted to time per definition. So not everything can come from something that lives.

I think the best definition of god is: "God is the hypothetical creator of everything that can be proven."

But not "God created everything." since that is asemantic impossibility.

If somebody claims on scientific problems (gasps) we also have to mention that there are lots of theological problems.

Since I don't belief I don't have to say, why. Because nonexisting things have no cause. And I also think that the causes, theists write are only guesses or additional apologies. I think ,they don't really know, why they have religious belief and I also assume that they cannot decide it. I think it has to do with genes: Some people are more predestinated to become religions than others.

I know some religious and some not religions aspies. Once I really dicussed intelligent design with an autistic creationist.

I also helped Bill Stillman with the survey of his third "Autism and god connection"-Book. I remember that I have answered nearly all queistions with "no".

I'm a Christian who has Asperger's Syndrome. I read most of the Religion, Mythology and Science sections of the Children's library as a child, and based on reading about all the major religions, I came to the conclusion that Christianity made the most sense to me. The rest came from seeing Christians, including my parents, putting their faith into action. Galatians 5:22-23 particularly 'spoke' to me.

My father (who was a maths and computing teacher at the time, as well as a former atheist) started training to be a vicar in my early teens (moving house several times during the process). Once it became known that my Dad was a vicar, many children (and the RE teachers) started to ask questions about my faith. I, being a typical Aspie, began to study theology and apologetics because it annoyed me that I couldn't always answer the questions, later at University (studying Pharmacy) I joined a theological debating society.

Because my Asperger's Syndrome wasn't officially diagnosed until shortly before starting University, the only support I ever got as a child, was from my parents and the various churches I attended. In all the churches I've attended, I've never been made to feel like a freak, unlike the schools, workplaces, and other places where I meet people.

Yes I h ave AS and I beleive in God and have a close relationship with Him

I'm a former Christian who is now an atheist

(And yes, I know there's a theological dispute right there...)

And I have a formal diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome.

(found very late at the age of 48!)

I became a Christian not on the basis of subjective sensation, but on the basis that it was <true>, as presented to me, on the evidence I had at the time.

Eighteen years later I became an atheist on the same grounds:

What I'd been presented with.had literally been led to believe didn't match what I found in the bible, its history and that of the Christian church.

I didn't set out on that project to become atheist: starting to teach others, I needed to understand Christianity with more detail and precision (James 3:1)

But my priority is to truth, on the best evidence I can assemble, as best I can weigh it.

That's what made be a believer and, later, an unbeliever.

"Faith" is a tricky word, as it carries so many different meanings and usages.

And ill-defined terms are not things that appeal to me.

I have a philosophy text-book which cites nine examples of the word, at least four of which are completely incompatible.

After reading a bit about Asperger's Syndrome, I would have to say that the religious beliefs of an adult with this syndrome would depend on the individual person.

Since the symptoms of Asperger's varies from person to person quite a bit, then how they would approach a belief in God would also vary.

But, that would apply to most of us, although for different reasons, I guess.

Has anyone done a study on this? It might be interesting to know the outcome!....((Hugs))

I suspect myself to have Asperger's. I'm an Atheist. The reason I don't believe in God is because as of yet no empirical proof has been provided to support the existence of God, and because I believe it is silly to believe in a concept created by humans and not observed through some way, shape or form (Dark matter hasn't been proved, but we can surmise that it's there from it's effect on other things.) The existing arguments for Theism just aren't strong enough to convince me, the argument from personal experience, however, is easily refutable, as it doesn't involve corroborated or observable evidence, just you, believing in something so strongly that it appears to you. The argument from design is easily explained by evolution; if everything didn't fit together so neatly as theists propagate, we probably wouldn't exist. I don't really understand the ontological argument well enough to refute it.

Basically, I just don't believe in anything supernatural. It's the stuff of fairy tales; it's not science; it's not logical. Theism doesn't make sense, and is born of the lack of desire to thoroughly investigate the mysteries of the universe; instead explaining them away with an omnipotent deity.

I believe in God because I find it illogical that the universe could form itself from nothing, so either it was made or it has always been (Which is even more impossible than it being created due to the constant creation of black holes it would have been swallowed up far too long ago). The only logical conclusion is that an omnipotent being exists and controls all things, I have seen the results of prayer to back that up to an extent. If there were more than one God there would be no balance and they would fight for dominance, in other words there cannot be anymore than one omnipotent being at a time. The reason why I chose Christian out of the three Abrahamic religions is because it got to me first and had a significant lead, but I accept the other two as well and consider it all the same faith.

Those are my principles of faith, the logical organization of true reasons why I believe.

I was diagnosed as a child with Asperger syndrome but then they said I sort of "grew out of it" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome#Pro...

I do not believe Asperger syndrome is a "disease".

I am extremely religious. And I am EXTREMELY logical. Everything must make sense, otherwise, I am not satisfied. I consider myself a philosopher, and all the greatest philosophers are often thought to have had autism or have been autistic.

I am disgusted by the deceptions in the world. I am devoting myself to destroying every evil deception out there. Most people are on their way to hell because they have accepted the lies and deceptions.

I don't let anyone push me around in my beliefs. I do not give up. I almost exclusively talk about religion and logic, because if religion is true, that is the most important thing to talk about.

undiagnosed pagan

being an aspie helps me see the patterns that exist in nature, so it quickly becomes apparent that there's more to it than meets the eye or can be dissected in a laboratory.

learning about asperger's a few years ago was sort of a relief. i knew from an early age that i had autisitic tendencies but didn't fit the classic autistic mold. when i read about asperger's it was like i found my brain's user manual.

please leave your question open a little while so i can post a link to my listserve.

I'm undiagnosed, but have virtually all of the symptoms mentioned. I suspect I'd be classified as one if I cared enough to have it checked out. I'm a solid agnostic/atheist. Always was. Even as a little kid in church. Their programming just always sounded and smelled like BS.

Hello, once again, to the Old Man From Scene 24. The answer is either "blue" or "Assur" depending on which question you're asking. Thank you for not casting me into the pit.