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Should Church Worship Spaces Be Used for Yoga?
Christian Post ^ | 09/19/2017 | Mark D. Tooley

Posted on 09/19/2017 5:25:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Sontagged

It’s odd. Today on FR I’ve been called a liberal, a member of Black LIves Matter and a pagan (paraphrasing). It’s pretty pathetic when people who think they are smart or wise take one sentence and act as if they know me based on that sentence. Of course it’s even worse when one of them, despite warnings in The Bible NOT to do so, claim the authority to judge my soul.

Now in return, I won’t judge your soul. I don’t know anything about your soul. But I do know that you think far too highly of yourself and, based on your “sentence” believe God follows Sontagged.


41 posted on 09/19/2017 6:00:16 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: WeWaWes

Yes.


42 posted on 09/19/2017 6:00:35 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: Reily

Yogi may be smarter that the average bear but even BooBoo or Cindy wouldn’t believe in the DNC’s platform.

Sadly, Yogi wouldn’t last long as an elected Republican, as he has ethics problems when it comes to picnic baskets....


43 posted on 09/19/2017 6:01:51 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: SeekAndFind

I would accept it in the church basement or a social gathering are but NOT EVER in the sanctuary.


44 posted on 09/19/2017 6:02:10 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: SeekAndFind

Uh...no, No, and NO!


45 posted on 09/19/2017 6:02:36 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: FatherofFive

I believe if you look into a bit more, you will find there is religion in yoga. Why don’t they just call it “stretching”??


46 posted on 09/19/2017 6:04:16 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: cyclotic
A church is a building, not some sort of sacred ground.

Not true. Catholic churches are sacred.

Consecration establishes a valid place of Catholic divine worship as confirmed by the local ordinary (Bishop)

Can. 1214 By the term church is understood a sacred building designated for divine worship to which the faithful have the right of entry for the exercise, especially the public exercise, of divine worship.

47 posted on 09/19/2017 6:06:02 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: WeWaWes

Sure

Matthew 18:20 Verse (Click for ... For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the middle of them.

Unless you think (see above!) that is nonsense!


48 posted on 09/19/2017 6:07:54 PM PDT by Reily
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To: DennisR

Why don’t they call the “Olympic Games” worshiping Zeus and pals? That’s what the flame is for - “Hey Zeus! We’re here! Watch us!”. Games in fact all organized sports ultimately come from pagan religious ceremonies!


49 posted on 09/19/2017 6:11:36 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Rurudyne

Yep! needs to go into a “picnic basket rehab” clinic!


50 posted on 09/19/2017 6:14:07 PM PDT by Reily
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To: DennisR
I believe if you look into a bit more, you will find there is religion in yoga

Can you show me why you believe this?

51 posted on 09/19/2017 6:14:35 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Reily
"Games in fact all organized sports ultimately come from pagan religious ceremonies!"


52 posted on 09/19/2017 6:14:49 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: Artemis Webb

I am talking about pagan ceremonies with a better sense of artistic taste!


53 posted on 09/19/2017 6:16:38 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Secret Agent Man

Satanic orgies should not be allowed there.


54 posted on 09/19/2017 6:16:59 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: SeekAndFind

There has got to be other spaces where these Yoga exercises can be done. The fact they are doing Yoga in a room so obviously designed to be spiritual for Christians was not by accident. At a minimum, it is in bad taste and not respectful of those who hold such views.


55 posted on 09/19/2017 6:17:46 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Reily

:)


56 posted on 09/19/2017 6:17:47 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: Artemis Webb

57 posted on 09/19/2017 6:23:21 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: editor-surveyor

>>>Yoga is low grade witchcraft

I find it interesting that a solid Christian like Roy Moore has sought the endorsement for US Senate from the noted yoga practioner Sarah Palin.


58 posted on 09/19/2017 6:23:28 PM PDT by oincobx
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To: SeekAndFind

Paul rebuked the members of the Corinthian church that had changed the Lord’s supper into a potluck, and doing so at the place of worship. He said, “What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in?” (1Cor. 11:22).

Same should go for exercise. (I’m sure back in Paul’s day most folks had a much more physical life, and therefore didn’t need to an aerobic workout.)

Most folks could get their workout done right in the house/apartment (and do it much cheaper) if they would only discipline themselves.

I’m a trucker, and they mostly don’t get enough exercise. But, occasionally I will see drivers doing calisthenics and jogging at truckstops. I’ve managed to keep a regimen that can be done in the sleeper (if it’s zero out, you make a way.) My current driving job has me home almost everyday, and the old Nordic track ski machine gets used 3 or 4 times a week.

I’ve heard stories about how the gyms are effective at damaging marriages. I fear God enough, and respect my wife enough to not go to a place that encourages a wandering eye. Don’t need TM to mess up your life, when just going to a gym can do the job as well.


59 posted on 09/19/2017 6:31:35 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: FatherofFive

RE: There is no religion in yoga

Some people in this thread disagree. See posts 17, 24, 36 and 37 of this thread.


60 posted on 09/19/2017 6:32:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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