Dangers of Yoga

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Pirates aren’t so bad. Long John Silver, if I remember right, sort of repented at the end.
 
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When my dad was still living he would get catalogs full of stuff for old people: heavy duty support hosiery, special shoes, canes, walkers, pillows, etc. And, believe it or not, DVDs and VCR tapes of nude yoga. 😄 Talk about the dangers of yoga! That’s the last thing an old man with a weak heart would need.
 
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Wasn’t there a televangelist with fundamentalist leanings who said that Furbys were a gateway toy into the occult? Or was that the Teletubbies he was raging against?
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Teletubbies—would turn children into homosexuals because one was purple and carried a purse. Everyone knows the color purple turns people gay. I think it was Jerry Falwell.
 
So we need to avoid purple, teletubbies, purses, and wearing phallic symbols on our heads. We should add mustaches because Freddie Mercury had one.
 
I had no idea it was this controversial among Catholics, or else I probably wouldn’t have brought this up. I apologize
 
That’s the video I watched that raised my concerns about yoga
 
We will probably not burn you at the stake…this time. 🤔
 
Thank you. That’s the answer I’ve been looking for. I had no idea that discussing yoga on this forum was so taboo.
 
It’s not taboo. It’s just been done to death over the last year or more, especially in the last 3 months or so. It just goes on and on and on… in a single thread. And that is why we have been goofing around here on this thread.
 
Yoga is not gymnastics. It’s not for “health, beauty and vitality”. This form of “yoga” is taught by pseudo-yogis and westernized gurus who know nothing of the spiritual life and practice of true yoga. If you like to stretch in certain ways simply for the sake of health, good on you, that’s not yoga! 🤣

Yoga means to “link-up”…it’s ultimate aim is union with the divine. Now, there are two main schools of thought on this: union with a divine entity, in the sense of a spiritual relationship with said entity (not The Holy Trinity by the way) or union with the divine in the sense of “dissolving” into the divine, meaning becoming divine. Both of these are Gnostic paths and therefore heretical paths. While “becoming divine” is found within Orthodox theology, it isn’t the same thing at all. For the yogi, the whole idea is to transcend material reality and end up wholly in a spiritual state. Again, this is Gnostic and heretical and in fact, demonic. For the Christian, the aim is redemption of the entire human person, mind, body and soul.

Do you know that Far Eastern philosophy teaches that this material realm is an illusory realm of ignorance? That our bodies are prisons that we must transcend? That material reality is essentially “evil” and only the spirit realm is good? The whole idea is to transcend the body. Tell me, what do we call the separation of body and soul? Yup, you got it, it’s called death. And did God intend for us to die when He created us? You see where I am going with this? I am preaching the essence and nature of true yoga here, not mere gymnastic feats or siddhis (mystical powers). That’s pseudo-yoga.

I can claim these things because I was a Vaishnava Hindu before converting to Orthodox Christianity. I converted because I came to a place where I realized that I was destined for Hell for what I was practicing. Please be aware of what you are diving into. That’s all I have to say. Take care.
 
I think there was also a rumor when the show was popular that one, or all, of the actors were homosexuals, which fueled the fire.
 
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