No surprise here. Yahoos who would elect Newt dogcatcher, much less to Congress, aren't the brightest bulbs in the pack, OK?

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Much of it is spiritual and religious.

It's a wonder they ever had the sex to have kids.

so it's okay.

If we made up spiritual sounding names for other positions, maybe we could help them expand their repertoire, like calling dogging style "pounding the pulpit."

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Not to mention the profound ignorance.

....much less their pastor's name.

What do they do at halloween?

we had this debate every year in the late 80's at our lutheran school Reformation Sunday or Halloween. come on think of the kids. How is Santa..

Leaving aside the power of meditative prayer (because it is meditative, not because it is prayer), religion is only useful to those who control it. Priests and politicians.

If the religion were strong and useful it would not fear yoga but would crush it without hardly noticing or would simply blow by it, leaving it in its dust.

Christians fear yoga for the same reasons that fundamentalist muslims fear drawings of the prophet and that the Communist Party of China fears internet postings: Reality might intrude.

idiots

I heard about a recent case of something similar happening in MA - though I don't think it made it to the National spotlight. I used to practice yoga every day, what it did was help me relax, teach me better breathing exercises, help me lose weight and even put on some muscle. You can practice it without it being even in the least religious.

Such terrible, mystical things as "praying over crystals" and, "being given books on Buddhism", are just so severely terrifying that it's like the next Harry Potter book, or something. Ugh.

Mindfulness indoctrination... the opposite of most religious teachings, which it seems is mindlessness indoctrination. What a bunch of nitwits.

Duh!

Jesus save us from such sin!
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being indoctrinated in mindlessness doesn't seem to be an issue with these parents.

parents who mindlessly indoctrinate their children in their own idiot religion. They're worried their kids will become Hindu because they exercise, what a bunch of low brow knuckle dragging redneck morans.

So, they'd have to be born Hindu. They could become Sikhs, though...

and the religion(or group of religions, its fuzzy) is practiced from India to Vietnam, with a mix in between.

Our lame social studies book, approved by the Texas SBOE of course, does not mention it in the unit on our environment and how humans change the environment. So I did. None of them had heard about climate change. No surprises there, as this is a very conservative town in which I reside. So now I am wondering if I'll catch any heat from my comments yesterday.

but don't tell any o' other guys that I eat it.

Like Christianity they mean?

Abrahamic religions are more likely to espouse blind worship (e.g. the actual story of Abraham's unquestioning obedience)

A woman was teaching free yoga classes on an University campus.

Her classes were suspended because it was considered offensive to "appropriate" yoga from its religious roots and use only the stretching, breathing and meditation parts. We had quite a row over it.

The thing is, cultures always borrow from each other, so I don't personally see the problem, but I'm a white guy.

In this case, if the teacher in Georgia is removing the religious roots of yoga, it's "cultural appropriation". If those roots remain, it's a violation of the establishment clause.

It's funny how such ridiculousness comes from all over.

so India started taking these things seriously.

And it is a fact that yoga is a spiritual and religious practice. It is a misrepresentation to take a few exercises out of context and call it "yoga".

... yoga is a spiritual and religous practice that was brought in to our country by people who spread it as a non-religious, meditational and stretching practice. How would people here know they'd been handed this down incorrectly?

The other problem is, naturally, that every religious practice derives (i.e. is appropriated) from some previous religion.

Can we ban Protestants and Mormons since they appropriated Catholicism? Catholics for appropriating Judaism? Jews for whatever polytheistic religion their beliefs sprang from? It gets muddy awfully fast when you try to rule who has the "real" religion and who is stealing.

I feel bad for anyone who isn't one them, but has to live in an area populated with 'em.

with respect to simple mindfulness practice without any crystals, Buddha or anything remotely religious or spiritual. I heard a fellow "professional" object to the fact that we were allowed to teach Eastern religion but Christianity was banned. I had no idea what she was talking about at first. This is in a mental health setting and the objection was to "concentrating on our breathing for two minutes." I thought the person in question was a crackpot, didn't realize this was a "thing."

They want rigid ones.

"And now let's do 'downward Deuteronomy."

crazies that think the children will start wearing tight yoga pants and calling it porn.

Seems a person has to try harder these days to avoid learning something, at least! So many ways you can inadvertently learn something useful, something that matters!

Looks as if they need to spend more time back under their rocks. They really don't have a clue about the human race.

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