Christianity On The Spectrum

In this episode, Jon and Christian review a book about liberation theology, specifically autistic liberation theology. We give a fairly thorough review of the book "Peculiar Discipleship: An Autistic Liberation Theology" by Claire Williams. We go through what we liked, what we didn't, things she got right, things she got wrong, and who should read the book.

Alternative title: "Do we need an autistic liberation theology? No (at leas...

In this episode, Josiah Leinbach a statistician whose masters thesis covered a Stylostatistical analysis of Paul's Letters, and Jon, a computer engineer whose academic specialty is counter forensics, who has spent a large chunk of his adult life trying to use computational analysis to determine who wrote things on the internet and teaching grad courses on how to do the same thing, team up to explain why New Testament critical schol...

In this episode Jon tries to explain his issues with Critical Scholarship. Admittedly this is a less structured and a more rambling episode, mostly because this is basically two of my special interests colliding which often got me side tracked.

My main issue is that many scholars are saying things with a lot of confidence, and I'm like "IDK, I think things are actually more complicated and historical reconstruction is actually extr...

This this episode, Jon addresses RFK's recent speech about the supposed autism epidemic, what he got wrong, the real differences between autism prevalence the discourse that has sprung up around it.

Live Stream I did with Nathan (Digital Gnosis)

https://www.youtube.com/live/m35jiN-7J7M

Papers cited:

https://www.dovepress.com/prevalence-of-autism-in-scandinavian-countries-denmark-norway-sweden-a-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-ND...

In the last episode, Jon talked about why autistic people often get disillusioned and annoyed with Apologetics and many people reached out to ask about a specific example that could be used to illustrate these points.

This episode tries to give a specific example of the problem with apologetics for autistic people to follow-up to the previous episode by talking about Christian Complicity in Slavery. Jon tries to explain why slavery...

In this episode, Jon, a Computer Engineer that studies and researches the intersection between autism and Christianity, talks about the weird and unique relationship between autism and apologetics, why we like it, why we hate it, why so many of us have an apologetics phase, why a lot of us become disillusioned, by analyzing data from over 26000 online autistics and over 500 long form interviews with Christian and ex-Christian autis...

In this episode, Jon, and autistic autism researcher attempts to address a wide host of questions about autism and autistic identity using research from over 26000 online autistics and over 500 long form interviews:

Should you identify as autistic?

Is calling yourself autistic bad?

Is self Diagnosis harmful?

Is autism 1, asperger's, or high functioning autism fake autism? and more

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In this episode, Jon is joined by Ben Crosby, an Anglican Priest to talk about MAID and the state of MAID in Canada and the particular implications it has for autistic Christians. 

You can find more of Ben's work here:

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/culture-of-life/a-canadian-priest-on-medical-assistance-in-dying https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/culture-of-life/where-are-the-churches-in-canadas-euthanasia-experi...

In this episode, Jon an autistic computer engineer from Canada tries to answer many of the questions that have been sent to him about his autism and Christianity research. In this episode he tries to explain the answers to the questions related to the difference between autistic Christian men and women and autistic attitudes towards sexual orientation to Maddie, an autistic woman from America.

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