NEWS: Pat Robertson Declares Yoga Spooky.

I think he's just scared that if everyone found out that we can find "God" on our own terms, he and his like would have to go out and find real jobs!

NO GOD FOR YOU!!!!

I declare Pat Robertson spooky.

I wish I hadn't clicked on this, that picture of him is going to give me nightmares.

I love his Lovecraftian view of yoga. I mean if its a practice that arose from something other than christiaity then in his eyes it should be complete bunk and be nothing more than an exercise. He seems to view it as some sort of ritual capable of giving someone a spiritual experience that is in some way sinister.

You give Pat Robertson way too much credit. He's afraid of yoga simply because it's unfamiliar to him and it's rooted in a different kind of spirituality. To him, that makes it inherently dangerous.

Friggin' excellent. I applaud you and the World's Strongest Old Dude. Not sure how his femur doesn't snap in half, but hey...he's got the G.O.D. on his side, right?

Yeah, I don't think jesus likes the fact that I can put my feet behind my head.

It's okay, even if he doesn't , there are plenty more people out there who are quite happy to hear it.

I think that's been declared a LONG time ago....

Though, it is true that yoga is an inherently spiritual practice... from what I've read from your link, it doesn't seem to be incompatible with Christianity, especially some of the more "liberal" protestant sects.

Afterall, isn't the aim about getting closer to one's Creator?

But you can say exactly the same thing about kung fu.

To say that any physical practice done for better body health has an inextricable "spiritual" element doesn't seem logical to me. I will say, however, that your point about spending more time and coming up against the belief is true, but only insofar as you will be looking for progressively experienced teachers, and it seems likely that the further up you go, the more the teacher will expect that spiritual element to be present.

But that isn't to say that you can't divorce it from that. You certainly can. Ultimately, it is a well-tested system of driving the body to ever higher limits, but saying that it must contain a spiritual element, well, that sounds a bit like saying "because of Jesus' parable of the talents, I can now lift 2000 pounds with my legs."

That is why he specified "fundamentalist" Christians. There is nothing very liberal about the people who specifically believe that every word of the Bible is literally true.

Pat Robertson is the reason Jesus said "Fuck this" and decided not to come back.

Concur. Your yoga teacher is obviously some sort of evil evangelist.

i agree with robertson.
yoga is the spookiest thing ever.
that's why i do it.
i'm all about spooky pantheism.
I spend the whole class chanting with every God who will show up,
Jesus, Krishna, Everybody.
I need all the help i can get.

Sat Nam, On Car Seriwa Guru.
Fun Dim Mental ists are the lowest form of non spirtual life on Earth.
I'm surrounded by them, they violate the seperation of Chiurch and State in mass, and intend to destroy all real knowlege , scientific, spiritual,and Historical.
They are the shit that Jesus stepped over.

It suddenly occurs to me that this Board is not much different than, Fear the Reaper's domain.
Doesn't anything on this site happen by it's self, I mean without bait from some staff writer, or more to the point, some writer wanna be ?

I think that yoga done for reasons of physical fitness is outstanding.