So apparently, according to some Christians, yoga is dangerous.
No, they don’t mean dangerous in the ZOMG you might tear your muscles or fall over kind of way, They mean spiritually dangerous.
Flimsy and I like to listen to the Bible Answer Man on Bott Radio Network for kicks. On the show, people can call in to get Biblical answers from Hank Hanegraaff, she show’s host.
Today, Flimsy was listening in when a caller called in to tell Hanegraaff that she was concerned about spiritual degradation in her daughter’s school. During P.E. Class, the children were being forced to do yoga.
Rather than let the caller know that yoga in P.E. class is probably pretty divorced from it’s eastern mystic origins and that it would be okay for her youngin’ to participate in yoga class, he agreed with her. To him, yoga has a hidden agenda – to cause people to worship false gods. Apparently, yoga is an “unfruitful deed of darkness“.
Seriously – how bigoted and intolorant do you have to be to decry yoga as an attempt to mislead you into worshiping flase gods? Yoga is so popular that churches have begun offering it with a slightly less Buddhist message to make it more palpable and accepable to the faithful – get closer to Jesus through stretching. Yet even some Christian groups decry this as simply masking yoga’s hidden agenda – to open up your mind enough to let satan inside. It’s very hard for me to take people who think this way seriously.
For an individual to believe yoga is really a dark art leading one to believe in false gods, the world must be an incredibly scary place for them. Yoga is such a benign and gentle form of stretching and meditation coupled with a tolorant sense of spirituality that I find it hard to imagine that anyone other than a paranoid schizophrenic would believe that it might be evil. Perhaps St. Louis is some sort of cave, but until today I had no idea that a Christian might have any problem at all with yoga. I am continually surprised by the vast differences in the tolorance of theists to other faiths or people with no faith – some theists absolutely respect other belief systems, while others search for ways to decry absolutely everything they can think of that isn’t in the Bible (or even that isn’t in the correct version of the Bible…). It certainly speaks volumes of the variations in human thinking and the ability to be fluid and plastic or rigid and intolorant.
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It was almost surreal, listening to this segment of the radio show.As Ziztur mentioned, I absolutely expected The Bible Answer Man to reassure the caller that there was certainly no element of eastern mystisism to this ‘Yoga’ at all. It was truly bizarre to hear him describing how spiritually dangerous it is.
It was almost surreal, listening to this segment of the radio show.As Ziztur mentioned, I absolutely expected The Bible Answer Man to reassure the caller that there was certainly no element of eastern mystisism to this ‘Yoga’ at all. It was truly bizarre to hear him describing how spiritually dangerous it is.
It was almost surreal, listening to this segment of the radio show.As Ziztur mentioned, I absolutely expected The Bible Answer Man to reassure the caller that there was certainly no element of eastern mystisism to this ‘Yoga’ at all. It was truly bizarre to hear him describing how spiritually dangerous it is.
Ya just gotta love the fear-mongering. At least it makes society more interesting!
Well, I can’t say I’m too surprised. Sensationalist programs like that tend to call anything that is popular among the youth of the day the devils work or something like that. Rock and RollComic BooksD&DDancingHarry PotterI just kind of turn the other way on the fear mongering demagogues and take comfort in the fact that they will time and time again be put down by the logical thinking community.
Ya just gotta love the fear-mongering. At least it makes society more interesting!
Well, I can’t say I’m too surprised. Sensationalist programs like that tend to call anything that is popular among the youth of the day the devils work or something like that. Rock and RollComic BooksD&DDancingHarry PotterI just kind of turn the other way on the fear mongering demagogues and take comfort in the fact that they will time and time again be put down by the logical thinking community.
Ya just gotta love the fear-mongering. At least it makes society more interesting!
Well, I can’t say I’m too surprised. Sensationalist programs like that tend to call anything that is popular among the youth of the day the devils work or something like that. Rock and RollComic BooksD&DDancingHarry PotterI just kind of turn the other way on the fear mongering demagogues and take comfort in the fact that they will time and time again be put down by the logical thinking community.
Whatever. Christians should have bigger things to worry about. In Bible College while my wife was pregnant another female student who knew yoga taught what she called “pregnant yoga” to my wife. It made her feel a lot better physically, but I wasn’t allowed to watch because my wife was embarrassed by the way she looked which sucked because my wife is hot and so was the girl doing the instructing. Neither got possessed by demons afterwards so I think we’re good. The only sin involved were admittedly my own lustful thoughts.
Whatever. Christians should have bigger things to worry about. In Bible College while my wife was pregnant another female student who knew yoga taught what she called “pregnant yoga” to my wife. It made her feel a lot better physically, but I wasn’t allowed to watch because my wife was embarrassed by the way she looked which sucked because my wife is hot and so was the girl doing the instructing. Neither got possessed by demons afterwards so I think we’re good. The only sin involved were admittedly my own lustful thoughts.
Whatever. Christians should have bigger things to worry about. In Bible College while my wife was pregnant another female student who knew yoga taught what she called “pregnant yoga” to my wife. It made her feel a lot better physically, but I wasn’t allowed to watch because my wife was embarrassed by the way she looked which sucked because my wife is hot and so was the girl doing the instructing. Neither got possessed by demons afterwards so I think we’re good. The only sin involved were admittedly my own lustful thoughts.
Its not a sin to lust after your own wife but its a sin to lust after the hot little number with a nice ghetto booty who is teaching her yoga. Not to mention watching her give your wife a nice body massage. I’ll end it there.
Highboy, you’re so funny!I was reading a christian commentary on yoga that said as long as you kept your thoughts on Jesus while doing it, you’d be safe. But wait – is it a sin to lust after your own wife?
Its not a sin to lust after your own wife but its a sin to lust after the hot little number with a nice ghetto booty who is teaching her yoga. Not to mention watching her give your wife a nice body massage. I’ll end it there.
Highboy, you’re so funny!I was reading a christian commentary on yoga that said as long as you kept your thoughts on Jesus while doing it, you’d be safe. But wait – is it a sin to lust after your own wife?
Its not a sin to lust after your own wife but its a sin to lust after the hot little number with a nice ghetto booty who is teaching her yoga. Not to mention watching her give your wife a nice body massage. I’ll end it there.
Highboy, you’re so funny!I was reading a christian commentary on yoga that said as long as you kept your thoughts on Jesus while doing it, you’d be safe. But wait – is it a sin to lust after your own wife?
I love doing Yoga, and it can tempt me any time. Also a lot of people that do yoga can tempt me too. Seriously though, I don’t understand how anyone can have a real problem with Buddhism. I might be an Atheist, and I am, but I fully admit to trying to live my life by a couple of the basic cores of Buddhism.
I love doing Yoga, and it can tempt me any time. Also a lot of people that do yoga can tempt me too. Seriously though, I don’t understand how anyone can have a real problem with Buddhism. I might be an Atheist, and I am, but I fully admit to trying to live my life by a couple of the basic cores of Buddhism.
I love doing Yoga, and it can tempt me any time. Also a lot of people that do yoga can tempt me too. Seriously though, I don’t understand how anyone can have a real problem with Buddhism. I might be an Atheist, and I am, but I fully admit to trying to live my life by a couple of the basic cores of Buddhism.