Well, can’t you go for a jog!
Now you’re just grasping. Look, I know it must be incredibly painful for you to see that your demon-busting fantasies are just making mole-hill mountains out of people who sit down and clear their heads. But seriously, it has to stop. As another poster implied, your spiritual warfare movement is just going to take you on the same path as the same kooky quacks that people accuse the New Age of harboring. You’re practically just putting a priestly collar on the snake oil salesman.
Demonic oppression is no doubt a root cause for many cases of psychotic behaviour as well as other things mixed in.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled…
Right, yet all the while he leaves demonic bread crumbs that he conspires people to disbelieve. Not only is your party line getting old, it’s not even logically consistent.
We do that during sleep and it is proven that we don’t need as much as we get.
Source? Better yet, how about you go sacrifice sleep for Lent. I won’t hold my breath though for when your health starts to deteriorate. (And for the sake of what? Your bogeyman belief in demonizing stretching and breathing exercises. I can name a dozen other beliefs worthier of that kind of sacrifice both in and out of Catholic thought.)
And in sleep, demons can attack if they choose, but the difference between practicing demonically charged exercises and sleeping is that one is inviting demons consciously (initially) while the other is…sleeping, as we know. Nothing new there.
Oh so I’m summoning demons now just because I’m standing to stretch or getting on my knees to rouse myself. You’re right. There’s nothing new here. Just the same old, demonizing schtick of misconception that all CAF expects out of a Yoga thread.
And yes, from a Christian perspective you got it exactly right!
You’d sacrifice personal health for the sake of warding away demons.
That says it all folks!
They are respected priests at the Vatican. And the Magisterium doesn’t say New Age is to be practiced by Christians.
That’s because the Magisterium doesn’t micro-manage the daily exercisers of all the billions of Catholics worldwide.
Oh but, you’d like it if some questionable priest (dubbed
a loose cannon by one CA apologist no less) should be given that right…
Words in other languages are interpreted, surely you knew this…?!
Sorry, as a language major grad, you have a horrible understanding of translation. Please, I implore you to stop grasping at the straws. The language used in Yoga and other New Age practices are, like the movement itself, simply rhetoric of personal empowerment. There’s no summoning of demons nor invoking goat-headed freaks.
It’s just a bunch of people stretching and breathing, getting their minds to focus. End. Of. Story.
I’m not the one with the emotional attachment to the sayings of exorcist as if they were holier than the Pope. But really, nice of to try and project that emotional insecurity to my, already-proven-false, accusation that I’m somehow attached to Yoga.
“…our camp”?! What are you talking about? So basically you want to blame others for things that have gone wrong? Sorry to hear they did, but that is usually one’s own fault not others. We always have choices.
Yep, I chose to listen to the New Age hating camp of exorcists and apologists of the spiritual warfare movement…
… and practically sucked out myself everything that a sensible person would call life.
It’s not blame friard. It’s fact. I’ve listened to the rhetoric you’ve been linking to far too long. It’s time people thought twice about it.
…go and be nice.
