Be Afraid of Yoga

[Rolyo85]

The basics in yoga are from a religion. You can't change the facts.

Go call someone else ignorant -- I looked at the whole picture -- most of the other posters here just got upset without doing any research.

Tell us about martial arts, Jack. They are, after all, the EXACT SAME THING as Yoga.

[GiancarloC]

Key word is can.

I'll repeat -- separation between church and state doesn't only mean Christian churches.

Nope false. It has a secular purpose. It's not advocating religion. And yes, it can. That's how the Supreme Court operates. Learn the Lemon test please. Lemon v Kurtzman.

http://www.usconstitution.net/lemon.html

Does Yoga pass the Lemon test? Absolutely. Yoga itself does NOT advance religion, nor does it inhibit the practicing of religion.

Yoga isn't a religious practice, but keep trying to advance those same ridiculous falsehoods.

[Just_Believe18]

Well, the conservative states have removed Christmas from the schools --- maybe you don't know what Christmas means -- that could be the problem.

Must you continue to lower yourself to the lowest common denominator?

Make the attempt, at the very least, the minimal effort to actually engage in a rational, coherent discussion, Jack_Springer.

[JB3]

How the Fuck is Yoga Like Fucking Christmas??????

How the Fuck is Yoga Like Fucking Christmas??????

How the Fuck is Yoga Like Fucking Christmas??????

How the Fuck is Yoga Like Fucking Christmas??????

Sorry, just had to quote this multiple times.

[opinterph]

Sorry, just had to quote this multiple times.

17. Please avoid excessive shouting (use of all-caps) or flooding (continuous posting of repetitive text).

[Nemothepanda]

Yeah...I think it's a safe bet that most people who practice Yoga in this country, like 90% of them, do it purely for the physical and mental exercise, and not to experience some sort of new agey orgasm of the universe by bending your spine a certain way. Heck, I'm Buddhist, and I know that meditation doesn't make one a Buddhist. Same respect for practicing this yoga, and not the countless other schools.

[andysayshi]

Great abs for a 33 year old. He must do yoga!

[JB3]

Great abs for a 33 year old. He must do yoga!

What do you think he was doing those three days in his tomb!

[Rolyo85]

By the way, Halloween is also religious. I want it out of the schools.

[Jack Springer]

By the way, Halloween is also religious. I want it out of the schools.

It has been out of schools for years ... it's now called something like Fall Festival.

You really need to get out more.

[Rolyo85]

It has been out of schools for years ... it's now called something like Fall Festival.

You really need to get out more.

I imagine you got the same proof of that as you did for Christmas, yes? Also, I'm still waiting for your opinion of martial arts.

[mightbe]

Sadly--Jack's wrong. Schools still actively call it Christmas Break, Halloween, Easter Break etc. They've become so baseless and removed of their religious meaning it doesn't even matter to me. He's under the delusion that Democrats have removed Christmas from schools. He's wrong. They've done no such thing and may never. It'd be too great a step for 70% of Americans.

[Jack Springer]

It's winter break not Christmas break.

You're out of touch ... things have changed.

[GiancarloC]

Wow... and you know this how?

[mightbe]

Interesting. Graduated high school just a few years ago. Little brother still goes. It's still called Christmas Break on the official calendar. And yes the teachers are allowed to decorate so long as they don't ask a student to help. A breakfast club is also still going--led by a Trig/Geometry teacher. Catholic. They all pray before every meeting. She can't force them to pray, but she leads it. The district, the administration, the BOE, the principal, etc. all look the other way.

And yes it is a public school.

I imagine...you're in your 30s-40s? Turn on O'Reilly the second you get home, and spaz with the significant other about all the latest anti-Christian raids Obama has been leading. Chances are even he doesn't really know how things are. Murdoch probably feeds him. Too bad. He might have half a brain if he used it.

[xbuzzerx]

It has been out of schools for years ... it's now called something like Fall Festival.

You really need to get out more.

Sadly--Jack's wrong. Schools still actively call it Christmas Break, Halloween, Easter Break etc. They've become so baseless and removed of their religious meaning it doesn't even matter to me. He's under the delusion that Democrats have removed Christmas from schools. He's wrong. They've done no such thing and may never. It'd be too great a step for 70% of Americans.

Yup ^ that.

Jack, you're describing what the Christian private schools do as far as having "fall festival" or "harvest fest" or whatever to escape the pagan origins of Halloween. Not what the public schools do.

[mightbe]

It's still called Halloween. No more or less non-religious than the act of eating candy and decorating with fall colors. That's like the one holiday where the religion has been eradicated in public schools. Teachers spoke openly of "Christ" and "Our Father" and "Our Savior." Back then, I just glared. In hindsight, I should've pulled out the state and federal statutes on the place of religion in school. Or hell, even the district's own policies, however unenforced they are.

[GiancarloC]

Also still called Halloween, Christmas and so forth in college too... that was 2011... from what I last recall. And that was a State Public university. You know one of those universities that republicans always hate and want to cut funding for because they think it breeds logic and thinking.

[mightbe]

I haven't noticed it as much at college. It's still Christmas, but no Hail Mary's.

[chrisrobin]

Yup ^ that.

Jack, you're describing what the Christian private schools do as far as having "fall festival" or "harvest fest" or whatever to escape the pagan origins of Halloween. Not what the public schools do.

Halloween originates from the Druids. A Winter Solstice fete was being practiced waaay before Christ. The Romans observed Saturnalia. - Also, it has been claimed that Christ was born much earlier in the year.

I think the yoga instructors should be taken out and stoned to death.