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The name of this thread is a paper at the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, in which I read
"Other autistic traits cited by autistic Christians on the forums as prelapsarian spiritual abilities include sincerity (Autism & Aspergers, 18 December 2005), loyalty (Wrong Planet, 30 April 2014), intensity (ASPIESCentral, 28 May 2014), “compassion, acceptance of social outcasts, an ability to celebrate differences more easily” (Wrong Planet, 23 October 2013), and a deep commitment to social justice (Autism & Aspergers, 20 June 2009). The forums’ Christian riff on the theme of neurodiversity has an eschatological as well as an Edenic dimension."
I very kindly invite anyone here who can expand on these ideas to please do so. This seems so like what I have been thinking lately. I haven't been to church since the inauguration, because I almost got into a fight with a brother at Wednesday night Pastor's Bible Study. I am a 55 year old man.
I went to email him the other day, only to have my wife point out a facebook post where he advanced a conspiracy theory to a church lady acquaintance of mine concerning the counter-protestor's killing by a nazi in Charlottesville, Va. He did this ostensibly to calm her down, and he did this after just expressing complete faith in Attny Gnrl Jeff Sessions ability to uncover the truth, and how important it was to wait for that truth to be revealed.
Why...why...why isn't revering the same scriptures in the same way and to the same degree and personally knowing the One and Only Creator of the Heavens and the Earth and All That Is in Them, why isn't all this, all by itself, enough in common to feel like I have a cultural connection to my brothers and sisters? I feel like we were seperated at birth and I was adopted out to, sure, I'll say it, to aliens. How does this happen?
Does any of the kind of confusion and frustration that I'm describing sound familiar to anyone here? The evidence of the quote above suggests it, and I am guardedly optimistic.
"Other autistic traits cited by autistic Christians on the forums as prelapsarian spiritual abilities include sincerity (Autism & Aspergers, 18 December 2005), loyalty (Wrong Planet, 30 April 2014), intensity (ASPIESCentral, 28 May 2014), “compassion, acceptance of social outcasts, an ability to celebrate differences more easily” (Wrong Planet, 23 October 2013), and a deep commitment to social justice (Autism & Aspergers, 20 June 2009). The forums’ Christian riff on the theme of neurodiversity has an eschatological as well as an Edenic dimension."
I very kindly invite anyone here who can expand on these ideas to please do so. This seems so like what I have been thinking lately. I haven't been to church since the inauguration, because I almost got into a fight with a brother at Wednesday night Pastor's Bible Study. I am a 55 year old man.
I went to email him the other day, only to have my wife point out a facebook post where he advanced a conspiracy theory to a church lady acquaintance of mine concerning the counter-protestor's killing by a nazi in Charlottesville, Va. He did this ostensibly to calm her down, and he did this after just expressing complete faith in Attny Gnrl Jeff Sessions ability to uncover the truth, and how important it was to wait for that truth to be revealed.
Why...why...why isn't revering the same scriptures in the same way and to the same degree and personally knowing the One and Only Creator of the Heavens and the Earth and All That Is in Them, why isn't all this, all by itself, enough in common to feel like I have a cultural connection to my brothers and sisters? I feel like we were seperated at birth and I was adopted out to, sure, I'll say it, to aliens. How does this happen?
Does any of the kind of confusion and frustration that I'm describing sound familiar to anyone here? The evidence of the quote above suggests it, and I am guardedly optimistic.
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