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If Christians cleared their minds, where would they store their bigotry, intolerance, hipocracy, sluut shaming, and pro-birth lectures?
(If this offended you, maybe think about revisiting your "PC madness" stance, especially regarding liberals, if you have one )
some would store those things in the same place liberals store them. liberals and progressives are just as, if not more than, intolerant of others as some hard core religious types.
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Seems to me to be a good compromise worked out by the school. I also didn't see anyone complaining about exercise being offensive so I have no idea where that came from.
Yoga in mainstream America is done for exercise/health/relaxation...it has nothing to do with religion, especially in this school context. Stop pretending that god/gods are being promoted in this elementary school.
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Perhaps you don't understand that Yoga isn't "exercise." It is rooted in transcendental meditation and has it's origins in India. It is about an altered state of mind (deep meditation). It involves "emptying the mind." This is not something that Christians should be doing. We are not supposed to "empty our minds" but rather are to be "filled" with the Holy Spirit.
Christians have good reason to be annoyed and object. This is a form of paganism. The public schools have no business teaching this.
Stop lying to yourself....in America today it is done for health. People do it for exercise. It is done at gyms in classes. I am well aware of the origins of yoga, and that some people today still find a spiritual component to it. Certainly not in this situation though. How dare you clear your mind and relax in a state of well being. THE DEVIL!!!
Perhaps you don't understand that Yoga isn't "exercise." It is rooted in transcendental meditation and has it's origins in India. It is about an altered state of mind (deep meditation). It involves "emptying the mind." This is not something that Christians should be doing. We are not supposed to "empty our minds" but rather are to be "filled" with the Holy Spirit.
Christians have good reason to be annoyed and object. This is a form of paganism. The public schools have no business teaching this.
Yoga isn't exercise? Haha... Okie dokie artichokie. I dare you to try just one of the positions. No. I double dog dare you.
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Apart from the spiritual goals, the physical postures of yoga are used to alleviate health problems, reduce stress and make the spine supple in contemporary times. Yoga is also used as a complete exercise program and physical therapy routine.[63]
While the practice of yoga continues to rise in contemporary American culture, sufficient and adequate knowledge of the practice’s origins does not. According to Andrea R. Jain, Yoga is undoubtedly a Hindu movement for spiritual meditation, yet is now being marketed as a supplement to a cardio routine. This scope "dilutes its Hindu identity." Contemporaries of the Hindu faith argue that the more popular yoga gets, the less concerned people become about its origins in history. These same contemporaries do state that while anyone can practice yoga, only those who give Hinduism due credit for the practice will achieve the full benefit of the custom.[64]
In 2015 the Australian Government's Department of Health published the results of a review of alternative therapies that sought to determine if any were suitable for being covered by health insurance; Yoga was one of 17 practices evaluated for which no clear evidence of effectiveness was found.[65]
The name “Easter” has its roots in ancient polytheistic religions (paganism). On this, all scholars agree. This name is never used in the original Scriptures, nor is it ever associated biblically with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The name “Easter” has its roots in ancient polytheistic religions (paganism). On this, all scholars agree. This name is never used in the original Scriptures, nor is it ever associated biblically with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Yoga in mainstream America is done for exercise/health/relaxation...it has nothing to do with religion, especially in this school context. Stop pretending that god/gods are being promoted in this elementary school.
I'm not pretending anything......The school was asked to remove the religious aspects from a school function and they decided that was a good idea. The kids still do the yoga.
What is the problem?
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