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I'm just curious if there is a religious denomination that most Aspies gravitate to. In other words, I like to do a mini poll as to if you attend a denomination or not. I'm having trouble deciding which one I would feel comfortable in if any. I just don't understand how these neurotypicals attend these churches but don't follow the beliefs outside the church.

I'm an Episcopalian.

I doubt there's any one religion that's more aspie friendly than any other or more likely to have aspies in them. Though I'm sure the WP atheists will be showing up soon to say theirs is the true aspie religion.

As for hypocrisy, NTs don't have the monopoly on it, I'm afraid.

They need somewhere to belong, but they do what suits them and hide the fact. It's quite logical really.

I do a better unhidden version of the same. I'm a religious freethinker, not signed up to any organised religion's beliefs but signed up to a suitably liberal church socially.

Episcopal again, but in Britain denomination is not always a guide to finding what you want because thanks to church politics you get liberal and hardline churches coexisting in the same denomination. You have to shop around each church to find which it is. Particularly so in the Episcopals, who are close to breaking in 2, between the liberals who are pro-women and pro-gay and the intolerant Evangelicals who are organised as a church within a church. Their unity to preserve the traditional institution is not working, personally wish they would get on with the inevitable and schism.

Thinking and liberally religious company is good, ever so better than mean spirited laddish company, hence vaulable for quality of life. Religion can be the only place where you find the difference. So it's a life quality enhancer, good social tie and way to express having beliefs beyond death, to belong to a church if it is compatible with me and not controlling, and importantly, if it does not consist mainly of old folks with grumpy generational attitudes. To find a church fitting all these requirements takes some finding, here, but is doable if you are in a heavily populated region. It would be unfair to be excluded from this quality of life good by not happening to believe in standard Christianity, or in standard Spiritualism or Buddhism if I went to them instead, have visited both.

There is no organised religion perfectly matching my freethinking personally worked out Gnostic beliefs. There is nothing surprising in that, it was very likely to be this way if I think for myself and don't follow crowd flow. Why should I suffer for it, either by having no religious social ties, or by changing my beliefs to obey an institution because it's what's available? Hence I find it an immensely satisfying freedom statement to say I belong to a liberal church yet disagree with some of the box it sits in and I'm a Gnostic not a Christian.

I don't have any real evidence to support this, but I would guess that aspies, as a demographic, are more likely to be generally non-religious, or at least not directly tied to any specific faith tradition. My reasoning for this is that an individuals religious leanings can be pretty reliably determined by looking at that individuals social connections. People who grow up around Christians tend to also be Christians. However, since our level of social solidarity with others is often far lower than the average NT, it would make sense that our connection and commitment to the religious beliefs of our peers would be far weaker.

This is far from saying that aspies don't usually believe in a god or gods; I'm willing to bet that the vast majority still have some kind of belief system that involves spiritual concepts. But I think it would be less likely to see an aspie claim to be, for the purpose of this example, a hardline Southern Baptist. Maybe it's just me, but I tend to find inflexible labels like that rather uncomfortable.

It may be easier to identify the kind of churches Aspies stay away from - not so much in terms of beliefs, but thinking rather of things that we find really difficult. I find sensory overloads a problem, being packed into a crowd, and being hugged, kissed or generally intruded upon by those I don't really know. The church I attend is Anglican/Episcopal and is insensitive/Aspie-hostile at many levels: many weeks I find it really hard to motivate myself to go.

Science is my religion. I have lost faith in everything else.

I was a Sikh.

Agnostochristofarian, Reformed.

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

Says James Chapter 1

Maybe Aspies are too honest, even with themselves to be like this?
Hence, after some years in a religion that seemed to believe that one had to be perfect to be worthy of Jesus salvation, I figured it wasn't in me to be such and so considered myself a hypocrite for even trying to pretend to be such a "Christian", and so abandoned said religion and to a certain extent, God.

Aspies though are blessed in other ways, namely that we can think and reason for ourselves, a consideration of the Bible and a comparison with religions that claim to follow it, revealed to me that all religions are Golden Calf's constructed by men and hence a possible danger to ones Spirituality and relationship with God, so I steer clear of them all.

Matthew 15 9 And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

13 But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

Matthew 23 15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

Erisian/Discordian. Denomination is a christian term... please don't exclude those of us who are not

I'm a heretical Catholic. I'm not as pro-religion as I'm pro-faith. What matters about the particulars if we are following the same creator?

To each their own on the interpetations.

I don't believe in free will, so it doesn't matter what I believe.

Raised Chinese atheist, currently agnostic, I feel like I'm culturally appropriating when I get into Western religions like Christianity, Islam or Judaism, and never really got into Buddhism. I don't believe in god or reincarnation though I do practice occult (Enochian, witchcraft etc).

There's a part of me that identifies... "culturally" as atheist? But that's like identifying as culturally Jewish or w/e. Around here religion is more linked to race or family than anything else. Catholic for Irish, Presbyterian for Korean, Baptist for Black, I know there are exceptions but these are the stereotypes.

There are tons of cultural Christians in my race but I feel awkward being into that because my parents are hostile to religion.

I've heard the Catholic Church attracts those who loooooooove lots of rules, I've heard of a pentecostal Church attracting a guy with high functioning autism (and his family was Jewish).

I'm something like a heretical Methodist and so far I've felt welcome at every United Methodist Church I've attended.

I would have to believe that pastaterianism is the most popular belief among aspies