Many people find polytheism strange, I don't, I find it refreshing, what I don't understand is why so many people gave it up for montheism?
Many people find polytheism strange, I don't, I find it refreshing, what I don't understand is why so many people gave it up for montheism?
I'll be honest and I hope I don't offend anyone with this statement but I find religion full stop strange. Absolutely each to their own and I respect what other people believe. But I don't understand it. I don't find polytheism any stranger than montheism. I just do not believe that any gods actually exist and I find worshipping an invisible being an odd concept. I think this is part of my autism. I'm very black and white and very logical and I need there to be some sort of evidence for what I believe. And I don't see any evidence for god's existing, if there was, surely we'd only have one religion.
Lack of evidence for the existence of God is one of the key sticking points for people who do not believe in a divine being or beings. Many people of faith would argue that they choose to have faith that God exists and some might say they have had personal religious experiences of some sort.
Some people who believe in God consider worship to be divinely inspired, yet ways of worshiping God to be human manufactured and influenced by geographical area, history, culture and so on. This idea means that it doesn’t matter whether you are Jewish, Christian, Hindu or whatever. Expressions of faith in these religions are limited by our human condition yet the essence of one God is there in each religion and can be discerned through expressions of love, charity, faithfulness, truthfulness and so on.
It is intriguing that you think your autism might be playing a part in how you consider religious worship. Now that would make for an interesting study—autistic people and religious experience (or lack of).
Did I say that I link my spiritual experiences with being autistic, because I just read back through my posts on this thread and can't find anywhere where I've connected the two? Although I'm not ruling out a link between the two, I'm not sure there is one, do you think everyone who has deep spiritual experiences is autistic? That would sort of imply that people in the past were more autistic than they are today or that all autistic people are mor spiritual, which from reading this thread, they're clearly not.
As I've said before I'm not big on worship in the traditional sense and I dislike ritual and the performance aspect of it, I prefer something more personal, but then maybe that's an autistic thing, not wanting to do groups?
Did I say that I link my spiritual experiences with being autistic, because I just read back through my posts on this thread and can't find anywhere where I've connected the two? Although I'm not ruling out a link between the two, I'm not sure there is one, do you think everyone who has deep spiritual experiences is autistic? That would sort of imply that people in the past were more autistic than they are today or that all autistic people are mor spiritual, which from reading this thread, they're clearly not.
As I've said before I'm not big on worship in the traditional sense and I dislike ritual and the performance aspect of it, I prefer something more personal, but then maybe that's an autistic thing, not wanting to do groups?
Eeewww, decaf, the very idea should be expunged from humanity!
I agree! I really enjoy strong, black coffee.
I have a manual espresso machine that makes excellent full flavoured, strong espressos, so long as I buy my preferred coffee blend. I have perfected the art of tamping the coffee grounds with just a hint of pressure to produce coffee with a smooth, light golden crema.
Eeewww, decaf, the very idea should be expunged from humanity!
Only hot, black, strong serious coffee here.
That’s a good excuse. I can’t tell if you are suffering from caffeine withdrawal or if you have overdosed on the decaf. No matter, all is well. 
It's easily done. Sometimes comments appear in a confusing order.
As has been shown above this was caused by a muddle and I don't recall saying I felt autism and spirituality are linked.
Sorry my muddle, my only excuse is decaffienation.
I don’t understand your reply TheCatWoman Your first sentence is a question which I think is for me. I have not made any claims about connections between autism and religion or spirituality.
I was indeed replying to Expecto_Patronum , although I did make an earlier response to your OP in which I gave my thoughts on why people gave up polytheism for monotheism.
Was ArchaeC not replying to my statement that I think my autism is connected to my lack of belief? They replied to my comment and didn't mention you at all so I'm a bit confused about your response.
I link my spiritual experiences with being autistic
Can you expand on how they are connected? Not so much the individual experiences but the different brain wiring and the experience of a supernatural entity.
Do you think this is an inherent facet of autism? I'm genuinely curious.