...I've...never seen a Christian theology that concedes the notion that God is complex before.
With the Trinity there is both unity and diversity, and in that sense one could say God has aspects of both simplicity and complexity. Theology that focuses just on the simplicity and risks abstracting God into a concept and ignoring God's relational and personal nature. If God is relating to his complex creation and all of us in our complexity, it would seem to me God has, at least in some sense, the full measure of reality's complexity within himself.
afleitch, I found that concept of the "minimally counterintuitive" very interesting. I would relate it to the process of revelation: God reveals himself to people in ways that build on their existing concepts, even while changing and challenging them. Changes in views of divine agency is part of this, but that is just one aspect of belief, and even of teleology. There is also the question of relation of God and those receiving the revelation, to the wider world. Thus there is a continual transformation and shift from the tribal deity to the more universal throughout the Old Testament - though due to human limitations and the recurrence of social prejudices it may not be a straight line chronologically.
The difference in susceptibility or openness to belief between a person high on the autism spectrum and someone with schizophrenia, is I suspect more or less depending on how religious experience is conceived or approached in any given place and time. Even the emphasis on belief as the most salient aspect of religion is significant as arising out of a certain kind of religion. Evangelicalism tends toward emphasizing emotive experiences and insistence on having enough or the right kind of "faith" in ways that - as you suggested from your experience and I can relate as well - are going to be confusing from autistic spectrum individuals even more than it is for others. Are there other approaches to faith (in the broadest sense) that would be more conducive to a meaningful religious life for the autistic? I believe it is the challenge of the faith community to discover this, to relate to people where they are. Unique strengths and experiences can be appreciated, though growth and sometimes balance is encouraged as well. You mention your experience practicing doing the things your obsessive scrupulosity tells you not to do. This is exactly the course many spiritual guides have suggested even long before cognitive behavioral psychology. My point being basically that religion can be much more relevant when it works with individual psychological variety than it is against it in some drive toward conformity.
