Religion and Aspergers

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Maybe people think Geoge Carlin is funny in this video, i agree its funny. But, because its funny it doesnt mean its not true what he say.

Atheist . . .

I dont like the identity-term Atheist, because it implements a notbelieve a notidentity. In my view its not clever to call yourself a atheist. We call a soccerplayer not a anti-tennisplayer, we call a soccerplayer a soccerplayer. You are what you are, you are not what you are not are.

The identity-term of humanist i like.

"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool." -- Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet; 1694-1778)

I have to wonder whether the scoundrel or the fool was the Aspie ... ?

If you love your life, and you love it that your family is alive, than its the best to dont celebrate religious holydays.
Statisticly shows that during Christmas you have the highest chance to get murderd, raped, victem of car accidents, liver damage, heart attack. Its not only during Christmas, im sure that other parts of the religion tree have there victems during there holydays.

"Its the most wonderfull time of the year"

For my personal understanding of God, I rely on my holy book of choice.

I do occasionally attend church, as long as they aren't dancing with rattlesnakes, I don't really care which denomination it is. I can embrace their specific way of respecting God for that hour.

I think it all boils down to desire. If a person desires to know God, for the sake of knowing God, they will. If they desire to find him for the sake of arguing whether or not he's real, they shouldn't waste their time.

Who taught the first birds to migrate?
Who taught the first whales to travel to mating and breeding grounds?
No one, yet they knew.
A compass will point North because of a magnet, where's the magnet? I can't see the magnetic lines of the earth, do they exist? Why do they exist? Is it because of science? What is science but a study of something most people will never see, but believe exists because someone else claims to have conducted experiments with a few interested others and wrote a paper on it.

I won't argue the existence of God. It's a personal journey. What I will argue is what exactly is fact? Fact for the bird is not fact for my species, yet I cannot deny that birds will freeze to death if they don't head South when it gets cold. The magnetic lines exist for birds with no science involved. If a human did that, we would call it a pilgrimage; something spiritual. Do birds know why they migrate? Do they envision themselves frozen to a branch and say, "Ooh, I need to migrate." I don't believe they do, because what point of reference would they have?

I believe people think too much when it comes to God. And with great wisdom comes great suffering...

There is something inside of me that pulls me toward a spiritual magnetic line. But, I have to follow it.

I haven't read this whole thread, but I will say a couple of things anyway.

a.) Religion is not the same as believing in God. Religion is unquestioning acceptance of somebody else's authority on what to believe ABOUT God, or other aspects of religion. I.e. dogma.
b.) I can see some reason to believe there is a God although I would not presume to say what God's true nature is or what "He" thinks humans should or shouldn't do. For this reason, I believe I can claim to have no religion in practice, although officially I am a convert to Reform Judaism (which seems to be less and less of a thing nowadays).
c.) I was never able to unquestioningly believe anything without some sort of rational explanation. Also to hold such beliefs because someone in authority or "the group" holds them. To me this seems very normal for someone with AS so I am genuinely perplexed that some many members of this site are religious. But I have learned to not question such things.

The ritual religious slaughter of animals without anesthesia.

I am surprised that no-one has had it yet, with which some religions have a gruesome way of slaughtering.
Centuries ago, in the days when there was no electricity, people could not slaughter without anesthesia.
Anesthesia in the sense of a strong power surge, so that animals hurt as shortly as possible
would suffer. With the anesthesia of current the consciousness is shorter and less painful than when an animal slowly dies blood. I think it is scandalous that ritual slaughter is still allowed in most countries in Europe. If the dogmas and doctrines of your religion are more important that the welfare of animals then you are a bit sick in your head. I can only talk about how things are going in Western Europe. In the video below the famous Temple Gradin is also mentioned. Fortunately, she rejects abuses in the video. The man in the Peta video says that he rejects the wrongdoing, but whether he rejects slaughtering the animals without anesthesia is not clear. He indicates that he has now become a vegetarian. As long as the laws allow it without anesthesia you will continue to keep these abuses.

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