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"The Christian alternative to yoga."
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this moves beyond the funny!
Posted 24 months ago.
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Because everyone knows yoga is Satan's
favorite method of keeping in shape (other
than Tae Bo, of course).
Posted 24 months ago.
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"basic steps to godly fitness"
Posted 24 months ago.
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hahahaha...i cant stop laughing ;-)
Posted 24 months ago.
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I wonder how much is still Yoga with new
names... probably some renamed pilates moves
in there too.
Posted 24 months ago.
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love it... :D
Posted 24 months ago.
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why do christians need an
"alternative" to yoga? is the real
thing not good enough?
Posted 24 months ago.
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I'm guessing this tape frowns upon the Lotus
position. "Too Buddhist."
Posted 24 months ago.
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OIA (Only In America)
Posted 24 months ago.
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Last time i heard about a "Christian
alternative to yoga", it was called
"Yo-God". I think this is a slight
improvement.
Posted 24 months ago.
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Actually, the "Christian"
alternative to Yoga would probably be Hesychasm . But then again, that would violate the
sacred Protestant tradition of reinventing
the wheel whenever possible.
Posted 24 months ago.
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I've known Christians who honestly believe
that yoga and meditation are strictly pagan
mystic practices, that to meditate was to
invite communion with demons and that the
public has been fooled that it's just a
harmless exercise when in fact you could be
"channeling demonic beings into your
body"!
Posted 24 months ago.
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That is very very funny. devotional pictures removed from the renaissance group
lately, so I'm already bound for Hull.
Posted 24 months ago.
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[speechless...]
Posted 24 months ago.
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what a nut. check out the website, as
expected, its fabulously close-minded:www.praisemoves.com/ChristianAlternative.htm without Eastern influences "
Posted 24 months ago.
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The whole set is fantastic, although I think
this is my favorite. Want to know the answer
to "Why a Christian alternative?"?www.praisemoves.com/ChristianAlternative.htm
Posted 24 months ago.
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Thanks for the link. I'm rolling on the
floor!
Posted 24 months ago.
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Is this something akin to "freedom
fries"? Give it a new name and it solves
all problematic associations (and makes
someone a bundle, of course).
Posted 24 months ago.
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her rather arrogant and condescending
rationale for an "alternative"
doesn't seem to be anything more than scare
tactics for people who already agree with
her. oooh, savasana means corpse pose and
death is scary so why would i want to imitate
death oh noes! and the same goes for cobra,
etc. further down she has rechristened Plank
as "Altar Pose," so yeah i'd say
it's the equivalent of freedom fries.
Posted 24 months ago.
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Well. That was an entertaining read.
Posted 24 months ago.
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Sadly, Christian Politics and Christian
Merchandising are replacing the Christian
religion.
Posted 24 months ago.
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having a religion is funny?
Posted 24 months ago.
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Cracks me up but also very sad. Must they
insist on an "alternative" to
everything? And shows such ignorance as yoga
is based on a spiritual practice. (not that
anyone has to follow that spiritual quest)
Posted 24 months ago.
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Stupidity :p
Posted 24 months ago.
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Andy I though Jazzercise was evil...
Posted 24 months ago.
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...I think her hair says it all....(see this
link photo: www.praisemoves.com/ChristianAlternative.htm )
Posted 24 months ago.
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My personal favorite from her web site:
Posted 24 months ago.
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After all, Yoga is a gateway drug to
Hinduism.
Posted 24 months ago.
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OK, here's the clue:
Posted 24 months ago.
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what a tard
Posted 24 months ago.
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Hee hee!! {:->
Posted 24 months ago.
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Ya know, I look at this and feel such a
strange combination of humor and
revulsion...this is just so wrong on so many
levels.
Posted 24 months ago.
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i bought this book, and now i'm going to
heaven.
Posted 24 months ago.
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I just want to quote the author and say:
"Anyone want to join me in a collective,
“Yikes!”?"
Posted 24 months ago.
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An "alternative way of taking your cash,
the Christian way".
Posted 24 months ago.
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This will explain why most Christians are so
bloody minded and not open to others views.
You can't possibly have an open mind because
it will lead to demonic forces taking
advantage of the vacant state. Mmm speaking
of vacant states of mind.
Posted 24 months ago.
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HA HA. CHRISTIAN ARE TEH STUPID!1 STUPID
CHRISTINS. Why do you guys have to be such
bigots?
Posted 24 months ago.
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That's hilarious on SO many levels. Oh man.
Posted 24 months ago.
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A recent Christian talk radio show that I
listen to (because it aggravates me so much
at times) had a listener ask if it was ok
that her son wanted to take karate. The
radio host (may have been Jim Dobson but I'm
not certain) said "no because it might
cause them to think more of Eastern
philosophies and less of Christianity".
Having been taking karate for 6-years now
it's exactly that kind of thought that
aggravates me so much.
Posted 24 months ago.
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Reading the link someone else posted earlier
about why she did this makes it pretty clear.
She sees the physical benefits of Yoga and
simply wanted to remove the Hindu spiritual
aspect of it (if you don't believe that Yoga
is very spiritually linked to Hindu you are
ignorant. This lady likely knows more about
Yoga than most of the posters in here).
Posted 24 months ago.
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So to summarize Man or Monster above, bigotry
is not being open to the view that one should
be not be open to other views. Talk about a
Zen koan. I could take the opposite view:
I'm tolerant of any view but intolerance.
Posted 24 months ago.
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In addition to the photo, some of these
comments are pretty funny too.
Posted 24 months ago.
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LOL! That photo and everyone's comments are
brilliant. Thanks for sharing it.
Posted 24 months ago.
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Reminds me of the Angel (tarot) cards a
friend of mine has...
Posted 24 months ago.
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A Christ approved way of toning and firming
your muscles so that in the coming War you
can help smite the atheists and other
non-believers and look good doing it.
Remember: nothing says "loser"
during a Holy War like sagging buttocks. Only
30-minutes a day under the watchful eye of
God and before you know it you'll be able to
flow from the "Walkin' Wisdom
Warm-ups" to "Lounging on the
Cross" without batting an eye. Do it for
God and do it for yourself. But mostly, do it
for God.
Posted 24 months ago.
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Well, I have to say that the concept is sound
(Yoga's dependence on mysticism is
incompatible with Christianity), the
execution is lacking.
Posted 24 months ago.
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I would say that living a capitalist
lifestyle is incompatible with Jesus' own
teachings.
Posted 24 months ago.
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Dear man or monster,
Posted 24 months ago.
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i would really appreciate not being lumped
together in a group. not all christians are
close-minded and hypocritcal. many of us are
very open minded and are just as offended by
narrow, disapproving view points as
non-christians are.
Posted 24 months ago.
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Man or Monster.
Posted 24 months ago.
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It looks like she is doing a Seig-Heil there,
who is she REALLY praising? eh? Anyway, I
just wrote her an email saying that in my
opinion it looks like she is hijacking the
hugely beneficial yoga in order to sell her
christian products and that coming between
people and understanding God is actually
doing satan's work. Not that I believe in
either of them.
Posted 23 months ago.
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The pic of the book just make me shake my
head, but the comments have me rollin'.
Posted 23 months ago.
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You guys shouldn't mock this woman and
PraiseMoves. Really. Ms Willis claims "the Lord" gave her the idea . Now, I'm not sure whether she means the
Father, His limber Son or that slippery Holy
Ghost, but unless she's LYING or DELUDED,
it's clear that God Hates Yoga. Poke fun at
your own peril, you downward-facing dogs!
Posted 23 months ago.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is the attainment
of liberation (Moksha) from worldly suffering
and the cycle of birth and death (Samsara).
Yoga entails mastery over the body, mind, and
emotional self, and transcendence of desire.
It is said to lead gradually to knowledge of
the true nature of reality. The Yogi reaches
an enlightened state where there is a
cessation of thought and an experience of
blissful union. This union may be of the
individual soul (Atman) with the supreme
Reality (Brahman), as in Vedanta philosophy;
or with a specific god or goddess, as in
theistic forms of Hinduism and some forms of
Buddhism. Enlightenment may also be described
as extinction of the limited ego, and direct
and lasting perception of the non-dual nature
of the universe. - This is why Yoga is
considered to be ill advised for Christians.
Posted 23 months ago.
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Get thee behind, downward dog!
Posted 23 months ago.
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....I don't know what to say.
Posted 23 months ago.
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Hey atheistema! What r u a hypocrite to?
Jst wondering
Posted 16 months ago.
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cyndelu, everyone's a hypocrite on something.
Especially Christians like (I presume) Man or
Monster. It's enshrined in the Book of
Romans, one of the collection they call their
"Bible": "for all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God."
Posted 16 months ago.
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This is long:
Posted 9 months ago.
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lemonslices,
Posted 9 months ago.
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Dutchb0y, I appreciate your response and I do
see your point. However, I am not saying
the "question of faith" is not
subjective, that I know to be subjective. I
am saying the existence of a Divine Creator
is not subjective. That is truth. The
belief in that truth is what is subjective.
A good book to read on this topic is
"Case for a Creator" by Lee
Strobel, I'm half way through it and the
points he makes are incredible. Perhaps he
will argue the case better than I. I realize
that I cannot personally provide proof that
He exists, created the world, sent His Son,
died and rose again... but He can. He did.
Jesus had skeptics all along. Even His close
friend needed to see and touch the holes in
His hands before he would believe. And
Thomas was right there experiencing it all.
How can we more than 2000 years later be
expected to have any less doubt. We can't.
But lets compare the truth that I know to be
Christ and the truth that most scientists
endorse... evolution. Although many would
have you believe this theory is able to be
tested it is actually impossible to test. We
cannot go back in time to gather actual data
as to the conditions of the environment at
the time the nothingness became
somethingness. These conditions have not and
cannot be recreated. Every attempt fails.
But the theory is taught as truth. However,
Jesus is historically proven to be true...
even time itself is defined by Him. He is
the one person who is universally both loved
and honored, hated and mocked. How can one
man stir up so much controversy unless He is
who He says He is? Now, is the belief that
He is the Son of God subjective in terms that
not everyone will believe or admit it? Yes.
Not everyone will admit this, but it does not
make it any less true.
Posted 9 months ago.
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o_O
Posted 9 months ago.
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lemonslices , I think you misunderstand the basis for our
(my) mockery here. I certainly respect your
right to believe in Jesus, Allah or the
Flying Spaghetti Monster. That is, I agree no
discrimination should come to you merely due
to the fact your belief. If it is harmful to
anyone it is only so to you, unless you try
to spread it around.insist that their religious beliefs be accorded
more respect simply because they are
religious. This is, to me, unacceptable. If
someone says another person flew in the air,
we demand proof, and we mock them if they
turn out to have been taken in. How much more
should we demand proof and resort to mockery
when someone claims this, that or the other
thing is due to some invisible magician in
the sky?
I am saying the existence of a Divine Creator
is not subjective. That is truth. That is inaccurate. It is probably true that whether a Divine Creator exists is a question of
truth, a question of fact, and not a
subjective matter. The claim that such a
Creator actually exists , however, is far from truth. At best it is a
controversial conclusion. At worst it is an
unsupported belief, in the face of contrary
evidence.
Posted 9 months ago.
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Lemonslices, I have to say I'm with
Monkeytime.
I am saying the existence of a Divine Creator
is not subjective. Far too often religious folk insist that
their religious beliefs be accorded more
respect simply because they are religious.
This is, to me, unacceptable.
Posted 9 months ago.
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I don't even know where to begin, to be
honest. But, dutchboy I feel I need to point
something out to you. You say you don't mock
my beliefs. That I am most welcome to have
any beliefs I want.
Posted 8 months ago.
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monkeytime, I was not proselytizing. I was
offering an opinion on a message board that
was created to ridicule another human being.
And in these individuals' cowardly
persecutions an entire religion was being
bashed. I wonder if any of these critics
would have the same distaste for other
religions. The same cruelty within their
words.
Posted 8 months ago.
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hi, lemonslices : I don't know that this thread was created
to ridicule the human being at issue
(although I certainly agree that certain
human beings deserve mockery). Rather, I read
it as mockery of her beliefs, claims and
work. All fair game, too, since she put them
out there.
Posted 8 months ago.
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lemonslices, I suggest you only interact with
the members of your faith, because you don't
make any sense to anyone who is not wrapped
up in your own mental universe and you will
just experience frustration dealing with
people who are not willing to see things
through your filters.
Posted 8 months ago.
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Lemonslices,
This sentence is a mockery of my beliefs as
you have wittled down my entire experience to
something I find attractive for emotional
reasons. You don't know me. You don't know my
reasons. I never gave them to you. This is a
judgment that you have made based on your
limited and stereotypical understanding of
what a Christian is. impassionate logic, an emotional appeal is what faith
intrisically makes. Surely one can have
myriad personal and rationalized reasons for
their own faith. I don't presume to guess or
know even the smallest possible reasons. But
to use something that is by it's definition
personally and globally subjective and
unquantifiable in a scientific sense is
foolish and foolhardy and only erodes, does
not build or discover more. Philosophy is
fine, Physics or the evolution of life
shouldn't be where "faith" is
applied as a tool to further understanding.
Often, it makes us shut the books, not ask
more questions.I actually never asked for more respect. I
was looking for the same respect that is
given to everyone else. I was looking for
respect for Laurette Willis. But, apparently,
Christians are not entitled to that same
respect.
Posted 8 months ago.
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