RoundSparrow<p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/AutismSpectrumDisorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AutismSpectrumDisorder</span></a> <br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/AspergersSyndrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AspergersSyndrome</span></a> <br><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> </p><p>Study of autism, world travel, media ecology study and experience has lead me to some very different conclusions than what most clergy / teachers teach about <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/TheBible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheBible</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/HolyBible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HolyBible</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/BibleLiteracyCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BibleLiteracyCrisis</span></a> </p><p>In particular, <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/SarahLawrenceCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SarahLawrenceCollege</span></a> professor Joseph Campbell's equations of all <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/religions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religions</span></a> being true, I think he under-emphaiszes one important thing that people don't seem to discuss about <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesJoyce</span></a> / <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/FinnegansWake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FinnegansWake</span></a> and Joseph Campbell's foundation of a lifetime of work based on Joyce... </p><p>1. Religions are metaphor languages (Campbell emphasizes this)</p><p>2. Religions have common human brain / human biological roots like languages do.</p><p>3. You can translate religion to religion at metaphor level. Similar to how written and spoken human languages can be translated.</p><p>4. Some things don't translate because they are unique experiences. For example, a spoken / written language for cooking a food that does not grow in other parts of the world. There may be language words for that food, to describe that food, tools to cook that food - that do not simply translate to a language from another part of the world.</p><p>5. The Tower of Babel metaphor is also applicable to "Tower of Religions", <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/FWakeForkBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeForkBomb</span></a> forking of religions into branches. Shia vs. Sunni / Catholic vs. Protestant (sub-branches, Lutheran Christian vs. Baptist Christian, etc, etc). </p><p>6. Marriage shows that people raised in different languages and different food systems and different religions can marry together and work as a family. That it is indeed possible to translate religion to region at metaphor level. If Love and Compassion are treated as "common ground" between religions, people can do choice marriage. <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/FWakeChoiceMarriage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeChoiceMarriage</span></a> </p><p>EMPHASIS point, back to start of this post: Autism Spectrum Disorder</p><p>Tower of Babel, Tower of Religions, is very much an experience like "Autism Spectrum", how hard it is to describe what autism has been since 1940. The ever-changing diagnosis criteria and global differences in comprehension and understanding across time (such as "Asperger's Syndrome" not being translated to English and popular topic until early 1980's).</p><p>A lot more I've said on the hashtags of these subjects.</p>