Yoga: New thing christians can't do

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http://pastormark.tv/2011/11/02/christi ... -a-stretch
Yoga is way too ethnic.

"My imaginary god said I can't have anything to do with your imaginary god."

"And, for those unfamiliar with me, I’m no raging Christian fundamentalist."

I never trust a writer who uses a plural pronoun with a singular antecedent. It is a sign of profound ignorance, which renders the entire point of view suspect.

Self-righteous t***

Spiritual growth used to be valued once upon a time... Abrahamics had to come and ruin everything.

My gentile half brother Joker is a christian he does Yoga.

I'm pretty sure I don't give a damn.

He is entitled to believe as he does, and his flock are entitled to follow him. (shrug)

If he tries to get yoga banned, then I will care. In the meantime I'm content to let him have a microphone and as much cable as it takes to metaphorically hang himself.

Yes I do in fact enjoy Yoga it is a great way to stay in shape

Well I do find it a problem when religious people say by fiat that their religion is the only true religion, even if I am an atheist.

I know that atheism is to religion like baldness is to hair colour, but that doesn't mean that people can start spouting that they are correct no matter what. It's arrogance via one's personal belief.

Why can't they?

I firmly believe, to my core, that people have a right to freedom of thought, belief and opinion, and that the right to free expression is subject only to limits that are demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society.

Allow his ignorance and arrogance to be seen publicly for what they are.

The religious right does not allow yoga because it is not a martial art.

The watered down western version of Yoga is generally okay to mix with Christianity but some of the original Indian versions fall far inside the category of off limits activities and practices.

+1, yoga is (or at least can be) a serious spiritual practice that may or may not be compatible with Christian beliefs. I think that any highly-religious person should give serious contemplation before incorporating other religion's rituals into their own practices willy-nilly.

I am pro-yoga, for the record.

As I recall, the Apostle Paul had written that it was alright for Christians to eat meat that had been offered to idols, even though said meat had been involved in pagan worship. I think Paul would tell us to go ahead and stretch.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Wrong. Go read your Bible again.



OK...seriously...

If I recall correctly, you're talking about one of the letters to the Corinthians. Meat that was offered to idols could also be sold in the market, so it wasn't always a certainty that you were always getting "clean" meat. The Corinthian mindset was basically that they knew they'd been granted salvation, therefore they were free from worrying much about whether their behavior was sinful or not. The trouble is that they professed to be Christians, but they didn't act very Christ-like.

Paul understood that it was difficult to tell someone to abstain from meat offered to idols since so many people were idol worshippers. In order to abstain from meat offered to idols, someone would have to make a point of not associating from idols worshippers at all--which would completely destroy any chance Corinthian Christians would have of evangelizing their neighbors. Paul's solution was "don't ask/don't tell." Christians could eat meat offered to idols as long as they were not aware that the meat was offered to idols. Culturally this would have been seen as a problem since Christians, who are openly opposed to the worship of other gods, would have been seen as insulting those who worshipped other gods by consuming meat "in an unworthy manner." Paul's advice was go ahead and eat meat, don't ask where it came from, and only abstain from meat when someone specifically says that it was offered to idols.