{"id":215,"date":"2010-10-11T16:08:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T16:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/10\/196-not-yoga.html"},"modified":"2010-10-11T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T16:08:14","slug":"196-not-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/10\/196-not-yoga.html","title":{"rendered":"#196 Not yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><form class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" mt:asset-id=\"18394\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 20px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" height=\"377\" alt=\"jesusmeditating.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/yoga\/jesusmeditating.jpg\" width=\"289\" \/><\/form>\n<p>Christian culture has a big problem with&nbsp;yoga.&nbsp;To them&nbsp;it&#8217;s a&nbsp;gate to the fires of hell. Its roots in pagan Eastern religions are the main problem.&nbsp;Even though&nbsp;Easter and Christmas are pagan festivals that Christianity incorporated&nbsp;as worship traditions, Christian culture is convinced that yoga is a trap to lure you into Satan&#8217;s jaws.&nbsp;Where there could be&nbsp;room for God in the gaps, they&nbsp;tend to&nbsp;assign those gaps to the demonic. You know, just to be safe.<\/p>\n<p>This sermon sums up the evangelical take on yoga. And I quote:&nbsp;&#8220;If you sign up for a little yoga class, you&#8217;re signing up for a little demon class. That&#8217;s what you&#8217;re doing. Satan doesn&#8217;t care if you stretch as long as you go to hell.&#8221;&nbsp;Well that oughta cut down on evangelicals stretching, lest they hurtle down the slippery slope into eternal damnation.&nbsp;Maybe you&#8217;d better not do Pilates either, just to be sure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BhcoBLdM8CQ&amp;rel=0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian culture thinks yoga is a gate to the fires of hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,337,200,336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-the-gray","category-satan","category-scare-tactics","category-yoga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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