Wednesday's "700 Club" featured a question about the Christian view of yoga. A concerned viewer asked, "Does it really have its origins in evil?" Pat Robertson gave the verdict: Yes! According to Pat, stretching is fine, but by repeating common yoga mantras, you are actually praying to Hindu gods Vishnu and Krishna and you're not even aware of it!I love how Christians always frame their arguments in terms of "good and evil", with Christianity always representing "good" and everything else on the side of "evil".
So books about boy wizards are "evil".
Meditation is "evil".
Yoga is "evil".
Science is "evil".
Critical thinking is "evil".
You know what is "evil"? Close minded people, that's where "evil" really dwells. And the people who listen to them are "stupid".
so are Buddhists evil too?
ReplyDeletewell, small minded ignorant people really do spread this crap...unreal....
( So g- when I say namaste - I guess now we know that I am being very bad....)
Bad Enigma, bad!
ReplyDeleteI like it when you are bad.
hmmmm, I will keep working on that ;-P
ReplyDeletenamaste...
( and they must think the poses are pagan too ? such flexibility has to be evil eh?)
Fundamentalists view the world in binary (good vs Evil). Cant blaim them..decades of indocternation during child hood has rewired there brains..
ReplyDeleteAnyhow I have been doing yoga for years and have always feltthe mental,physical and spiritual benifits of Yoga. Perhaps in Pat's view it is the devil tricking me :)
Namaste