The things I’ve run into that Catholics didn’t know, but should are:
1. They don’t know they shouldn’t visit psychics or do astrology, or they don’t know the reason why.
2. Yoga exercises are Hindu prayer positions and Eastern forms of meditation leave God out of it entirely, and most Catholics don’t know that they are doing something pagan when they do those things. Also, Christians don’t have karma, i.e. “what goes around comes around.” Rather, we get what we don’t deserve— God’s abundant mercy and grace.
3. They don’t really know the reasons why fornication and cohabitation are wrong, so they go ahead and live together before marriage.
4. They don’t really know the reasons why homosexual conduct is wrong.
How ever did you manage to find such poorly catechized Catholic? Did you throw a stone? Catholics are very angry over the state the faithful were left in following so many of the misguided changes implemented by those who misunderstood Vatican II. We also are angry that people who are very bold to say their opposition to Church teaching “cough, abortion, cough.” self label as Catholic and then become “catholic” media darlings. We are angry at the priests and religious and lay teachers who pass on outright pagan practices to our children and try to put a Christian gloss over them. Lipstick on a pig does not change the pig. We are angry that priests ignored, violated and twisted the Church’s very clear teachings on sexual morality and damaged the bodies and souls of so many innocents. And we are angry at the Bishops who did nothing or at worse aided and abetted this.
But things are changing. And this change will result in a smaller Church. Small but more robust one. We will have fewer priests. But these priests will truly be godly men. The same hold trues for religious orders. We will always have dissenters. Because even though they have a lot of other religions or non religions to go to they don’t care about that. They care about destroying the Church and making it over in their image. They are agents of Satan.
And within 25 years I predict we will have a major Schism. And the heresies that brings about this Schism will be brought about in great part by the following:
1. Denying the uniqueness of Christ.
2. Endorsement of perverse sexual practices/
3. Endorsement of abortion.
4. Elevation of the creature above the creator, especially of the envirnoment.
Got to argue with you about yoga. Yoga prepares the body to be still and know. Moreover, western people don’t understand karma as it is used in the east. It means more like “duty to God” than “what goes around comes around.”
LOL - I gotta love the logic here. Have you ever done yoga? No, I'm not talking about all of the garbage that often goes with the body positions, I'm only referring to those positions - just as you did. It is an excellent form of exercise and stretching.
There is one position that is very similar to sitting in a chair. I'm curious - will you now stand while eating and stop using your car in order to stay out of that EEEEEVIL prayer position? Get right on it and let us know how it goes.