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Post by maolsheachlann on Jun 11, 2018 12:25:44 GMT
This is an interesting blog post. life-with-aspergers.blogspot.com/2014/09/aspergers-syndrome-and-religion.htmlThe "aspie" community has become very vocal in recent years. It's interesting to ask how differently "wired" brains might process religious claims and religious beliefs. Sometimes I wonder if certain characteristics within the Traditionalist movement have undertones of Asperger's...for instance, the preoccupation with particular rubrics being followed exactly. However, that is speculative. In many debates in the modern era, one feels that one group of people are appealing to reactions and values that the other group dosesn't have at all. I haven't read "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt but that seems to be the theme of it. That's what got me thinking about Asperger's. I'm interested in it from a human point of view. I wonder if it is becoming more common?
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Post by assisi on Jun 17, 2018 16:54:29 GMT
I initially feel uncomfortable discussing links between disorders and levels and types of religious beliefs; this would emanate from my own personal belief that God is capable of being known to all (except perhaps for those who are severely mentally disabled, and then I think their innocence of mind will be enough for their salvation). But if I give the whole subject a little more thought I come round to the conclusion that there are myriad ways of believing. In Catholicism we have believers whose emphasis and predilection are for various aspects of the faith such as prayers, apologetics, Church history, saints, liturgy, theology and philosophy, pilgrimages, the Eucharist, Marian devotion, community activities, charitable work and many more. Undoubtedly each of these activities, or combinations of them are appropriate and fitting for the people who choose them. As for Aspergers being at either extreme of religious belief, all consuming believer or full on atheist, there does seem to be some support for this in the comments section of the Blog mentioned. Perhaps aspergers is just an extreme version of how we all are. For example those of a conservative nature tend towards upholding the traditions of belief, those of a liberal bent tend towards more openness in belief. In other words belief is filtered through the personality of each individual and comes out in a range of different ways. I think the secret is to allow for innovation and new ideas within the Church without deviating from the truths and structures of scripture and tradition. Here's an interesting snippet of Jordan Peterson talking about conservative and liberal belief. Warning it does include the phrase 'yin and yang' www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbMwGFnLET0
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Post by hibernicus on Jul 2, 2018 21:11:12 GMT
One sinister little touch is that it has recently been revealed that Hans Asperger was complicit in referring psychologically disturbed children to the Nazi euthanasia programme to be murdered. The syndrome will probably be renamed. www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/why-it-took-so-long-to-expose-hans-aspergers-nazi-ties/558872/Interestingly, the nazi documents state that Asperger was a believing Catholic but had no sympathy with "political Catholicism" - i.e. opposition to the Nazis, "real" Catholics being expected to confine their Catholicism to Mass and prayers. Does this view of what constitutes real Catholicism as distinct from political Catholicism remind anyone of certain recent developments in our political life?
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 21, 2018 22:28:52 GMT
One point might be a tendency to see one's own beliefs in terms of pure logic without recognising the assumptions on which they rest, which is shared by both trads and atheist fundamentalists. (Chesterton's madman whose arguments are perfectly logical but based on an insane premise comes to mind. One thing that struck me recently is that Chesterton's argument can be applied as a critique of the form of liberalism which argues that disputes can be resolved in terms of pure neutral procedure without invoking disputed values.) Mind you, I'm worried about explaining any mindset in terms of psychology alone.
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