Well, people wanted me to talk about this for some reason, so I turned on the recording studio and talked at a wall for an hour, hopefully this is helpful for someone.

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 least not if it is what this book is proposing)"

Alternative title: "An autistic liberation theology that will probably be rejected by most autistic Christians"

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 scholars are wrong about Stylostatistical analysis being able to show that Paul did or did not write various letters attributed to him.

(if you can't see the graphs from your page, you can see them here https://christianityonthespectrum.podbean.com/e/qa-why-new-testament-scholars-are-wrong-about-style-in-paul/)

Graph of Styles in Paul mentioned by Josiah

Graph Jon mentioned:

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 extremely hard to do accurately IRL" and basically say that on a loop for 1:30.

Correction: I kept saying "providence" I meant to say provenance" I guess I just had Christianity on the brain a little too much

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-NDT

https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1961

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00333549231163551

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 apologetics are often not convincing to autistic people, often backfire, and then uses his experience talking about this subject with autistics to suggest a possible solution.

The Gavin Ortlund Video that I reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZImmDmr8pxk

Books Mentioned:

• Slavery in Early Christianity – Jennifer A Glancy
• Slavery in the Late Roman World AD 275-425 – Kyle Harper
• Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World – Katharine Gerbner
• From Shame to Sin: Transformation of Sexual Ethics in Late Antiquity – Kyle Harper

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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 autistics.

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In this episode, Jon talks about his research on autistic Christians to answer questions about autistic clergy, monks, nun, consecrated virgins, missionaries and others. He talks about why they take religious vocations, the good aspects and the bad ones as well.

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