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Lol, I'll remember this next time anyone tries to give liberals any grief over being oversensitive.
yep, score 10 thousand to one....in favor of liberal sensitivity.... give em hell!
yoga, meditation promotes the self, rather than God as the center.
That is the church's position and that is where the parents got their ideas.
Liberals pioneered the oversensitivity issue to a point where their concerns have become pathological. the schools have accepted the role of being the official social justice portals. Namaste, is the liberals suffering a 'verp' and it doesn't taste good the 2nd time its swallowed.
When peanut butter and jelly and the american flag on a T-shirt are declared offensive, the game is out of reach of the conservatives, even being a player.
Mindfulness?
De-stressing?
For six year olds?
How about Barney and Sesame Street and soccer at recess?
Fuzzy-headed liberal teachers need to leave their personal problems at home.
A good first step. Now if we could just get the fake eco-religion banned. That would really rock the propagandists..errr....educational world wouldn't it?
Did this person say they had anything to do with each other? It's like saying we should ban "Christianity and Islam".
Wait, what do they have to do with each other?
Anyway, while I'm an agnostic and liberal, I think the parents in this case are justified. We are talking about Hindu religious traditions here, regardless of how watered down and hippyfied they have been in the west. If you can't pray in school, how much different is meditation and chanting Hindu mantras?
Indeed. Which is why I cited the slippery slope for folks who only see things through narrow, ideological lenses.
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Did this person say they had anything to do with each other? It's like saying we should ban "Christianity and Islam".
Wait, what do they have to do with each other?
Anyway, while I'm an agnostic and liberal, I think the parents in this case are justified. We are talking about Hindu religious traditions here, regardless of how watered down and hippyfied they have been in the west. If you can't pray in school, how much different is meditation and chanting Hindu mantras?
Indeed. Which is why I cited the slippery slope for folks who only see things through narrow, ideological lenses.
Buddhism and Hinduism in their watered down hippy states are "cool", "Hip", "alternative"...MAAAAAAAAAN. New age is cool.
Islam is tolerated because the people are brown and "oppressed", and right wing nut jobs hate Islam..it can't be all that bad if Sean Hannity hates it. .
Meanwhile all the things leftists hate about Christianity are magnified 100 times in Islam..sexism, homophobia, etc ad infinitum. I'm with Bill Maher on this one.
Christianity is so closed minded and un cool, MAAAAAAAAAANNNN. .
While I'm a leftist myself, the hypocrisy in this instance is pretty blatant.
Namaste is more associated as a Hindu greeting. At least that was my experience from a recent trip to India. Sensitive? Not when seen in context.
This conflict has to be seen in the context of the ACLU's and Atheist's constant legal actions against what are viewed as Christian 'practices', school prayer, displays of the 10 Commandments, and so forth. Separation of Church and state includes all religions. So, when invoked, it becomes a slippery slope.
Hindi/Sanskrit not Hindu...500 million Hindus who do not speak Hindi do not even give a hit about that word..They have their own languages..
yep, score 10 thousand to one....in favor of liberal sensitivity.... give em hell!
yoga, meditation promotes the self, rather than God as the center.
That is the church's position and that is where the parents got their ideas.
Liberals pioneered the oversensitivity issue to a point where their concerns have become pathological. the schools have accepted the role of being the official social justice portals. Namaste, is the liberals suffering a 'verp' and it doesn't taste good the 2nd time its swallowed.
When peanut butter and jelly and the american flag on a T-shirt are declared offensive, the game is out of reach of the conservatives, even being a player.
There are a bunch of more examples. You think this is the first place 'Christian parents' have thrown a hissy fit about something?
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