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To: radpolis
You were asking about what the Bible said, not what people feel about themselves. The Bible is clear that any worship that is not towards the true God is towards devils . . . that does not equate to open and deliberate worship of Satan (i.e. believing in your own conscience that you are worshiping the enemy of God and intending to do so), but the Bible calls that kind of stuff Satanic notwithstanding. Now if you have a problem with that, take it up with the Bible’s author.
44 posted on 10/16/2012 11:33:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Your interpretation of what you think the Bible says in order to conform to your own personal prejudices is not the same thing as what the Bible actually says.

Lastly, nobody is worshipping anything when they meditate.

How is saying a word that has no meaning the same as worshipping Satan?

You have no biblical defense of this whatsoever.

You really are stretching the realm of plausibility here to suit your own personal prejudices.

And, like I said, you have zero evidence to demonstrate the people who meditate are evil, devil worshippers.


52 posted on 10/16/2012 11:40:52 AM PDT by radpolis (Liberals: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy)
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To: Olog-hai

The scripture link you posted does not state what you claim. Try again.


58 posted on 10/16/2012 11:47:16 AM PDT by Tuanedge (Warriors victorious in a hundred battles, flee when a tiger enters their tent.)
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To: Olog-hai
I learned how to do TM back around 1973. Did it for about a year, during which I got no grade less than a 3.5 taking 20 credits/term as a Mechanical Engineering major.

And, during the instruction, there was no mention of any kind of worship. Fortunately or unfortunately, I got out of the habit of it, although it's not hard to do.

There was a book released around that time by a Harvard professor named (I think) Herbert Benson that was called The Relaxation Response which, in effect, provided scientific support for the benefits of that particular method of meditation. As I recall, he described how to do it, trying to de-mystify it and make it available without enriching "The Maharishi" who really was a bit of a charlatan.

64 posted on 10/16/2012 11:54:19 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: Olog-hai

The Bible is clear that any worship that is not towards the true God is towards devils

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So your thesis that TM is Satanic rests upon the notion that meditation is the same as worship. Have you made that argument yet? I must have missed it.


79 posted on 10/16/2012 1:18:54 PM PDT by dmz
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