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Blessed are the Aspies

  • Sep. 18th, 2006 at 2:31 PM
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Originally published at HellHound.net. You can comment here or there.

Anne Atkins is rejoicing in my innocence.

How strange. But she is a strange, strange adult.

Jesus was reported saying a few things about how his people would be looked down on or hated, would never fit in, and that family trouble was likely. And, as Atkins said, that childlikeness of spirit was a Good Thing. Jesus himself (as portrayed) was disruptive and unlikeable, a black-and-white thinker.

So: blessed are the autistics? Discuss.

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[info]zenicurean wrote:
Sep. 20th, 2006 09:39 am (UTC)
Black and white? Jesus? No way. You've so got to read around all that "he who is not with me is against me" stuff.
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[info]hellmutt wrote:
Sep. 20th, 2006 10:24 am (UTC)
Obscure pronouncements and dodgy layers of translation do not equal a subtle thinker. I don't care to read him further.
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[info]zenicurean wrote:
Sep. 20th, 2006 10:49 am (UTC)
Very true. Obscurity does equal lots of elbow room with interpretation, though. As a society, we need a tool for making J-Man live up to our ethical standards, and interpretative elbow room is the best. When a church father rings his brass bell, he wants our ethical prejudices to think it's lunch time.

"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one's enemies will be the members of one's household."


That's the famous bit from Matthew. Modern day liberal Christians will take that as a warning against violence that comes from nonbelievers and is directed at believers. Goes with that whole "the world sucks, love its maker instead" thing. Back in the day of Ferdinand and Isabella it tended to be an honest-to-god exhortation to go kill Muslims and take their stuff. Jesus! He's left, he's right, he's red and blue and green, he's everyone and everywhere. Ain't he grand?

(But of course, Biblically speaking I'm the Anti-Christ and an enemy of God, so I'm biased.)
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[info]hellmutt wrote:
Sep. 20th, 2006 11:33 am (UTC)
Yes, and today (or whenever I wrote the 'Jesus was autistic!' thing, I forget) I was interpreting it as "Your family will not get on with you because you're strange and embarrassing and you forget to do things like love and thank them".

Which is actually the sort of vibe I get about the man, even though I was jokingish when I applied it to Aspies.
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