Christian Parents Freak Out Over Yoga Exercises at GA Elementary School
Source: The Raw Story 22 MAR 2016 AT 13:37 ET
Parents at a Georgia elementary school are balking at yoga exercises they believe violate their Christian beliefs. Administrators at Bullard Elementary School hosted a meeting with parents to address what they said were misconceptions circulating on social media about the yoga practice, reported the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
The schools principal also sent out an email to explain the exercises and point out to parents that some elements such as the namaste greeting and other Hindu customs associated with yoga will not be used any longer. But that has not calmed fearful parents, who warned against mindfulness indoctrination.
Now we cant pray in our schools or practice Christianity but they are allowing this Far East mystical religion with crystals and chants to be practiced under the guise of stress release meditation, said parent Christopher Smith on Facebook. This is all without parents knowledge or approval. This is very scary. Parents beware of what your children are being taught without your knowledge.
Another parent, Bekka Miller Fedusiv, complained that rogue teachers singled out students and taught them how to pray over crystals and given books on Buddhism. Yoga-based classes have become more popular in school systems, as the practice becomes more mainstream and less connected to its spiritual roots in Asia.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/christian-parents-freak-out-over-yoga-exercises-at-georgia-school-this-is-very-scary/
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)Glitterati
(3,182 posts)No surprise here. Yahoos who would elect Newt dogcatcher, much less to Congress, aren't the brightest bulbs in the pack, OK?
mike dub
(541 posts)Nt
bananas
(27,509 posts)Much of it is spiritual and religious.
madaboutharry
(40,208 posts)It's a wonder they ever had the sex to have kids.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)so it's okay.
If we made up spiritual sounding names for other positions, maybe we could help them expand their repertoire, like calling dogging style "pounding the pulpit."
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Not to mention the profound ignorance.
LiberalArkie
(15,713 posts)jalan48
(13,859 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)....much less their pastor's name.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)What do they do at halloween?
we had this debate every year in the late 80's at our lutheran school Reformation Sunday or Halloween. come on think of the kids. How is Santa..
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)Leaving aside the power of meditative prayer (because it is meditative, not because it is prayer), religion is only useful to those who control it. Priests and politicians.
If the religion were strong and useful it would not fear yoga but would crush it without hardly noticing or would simply blow by it, leaving it in its dust.
Christians fear yoga for the same reasons that fundamentalist muslims fear drawings of the prophet and that the Communist Party of China fears internet postings: Reality might intrude.
3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)idiots
davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)I heard about a recent case of something similar happening in MA - though I don't think it made it to the National spotlight. I used to practice yoga every day, what it did was help me relax, teach me better breathing exercises, help me lose weight and even put on some muscle. You can practice it without it being even in the least religious.
Such terrible, mystical things as "praying over crystals" and, "being given books on Buddhism", are just so severely terrifying that it's like the next Harry Potter book, or something. Ugh.
Mindfulness indoctrination... the opposite of most religious teachings, which it seems is mindlessness indoctrination. What a bunch of nitwits.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Duh!
longship
(40,416 posts)Jesus save us from such sin!
<== as if needed here.
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)being indoctrinated in mindlessness doesn't seem to be an issue with these parents.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Jeb Bartlet
(141 posts)parents who mindlessly indoctrinate their children in their own idiot religion. They're worried their kids will become Hindu because they exercise, what a bunch of low brow knuckle dragging redneck morans.
elias7
(3,997 posts)So, they'd have to be born Hindu. They could become Sikhs, though...
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)and the religion(or group of religions, its fuzzy) is practiced from India to Vietnam, with a mix in between.
callous taoboy
(4,584 posts)Our lame social studies book, approved by the Texas SBOE of course, does not mention it in the unit on our environment and how humans change the environment. So I did. None of them had heard about climate change. No surprises there, as this is a very conservative town in which I reside. So now I am wondering if I'll catch any heat from my comments yesterday.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)but don't tell any o' other guys that I eat it.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Turborama
(22,109 posts)JesterCS
(1,827 posts)Like Christianity they mean?
knightmaar
(748 posts)Abrahamic religions are more likely to espouse blind worship (e.g. the actual story of Abraham's unquestioning obedience)
JesterCS
(1,827 posts)knightmaar
(748 posts)A woman was teaching free yoga classes on an University campus.
Her classes were suspended because it was considered offensive to "appropriate" yoga from its religious roots and use only the stretching, breathing and meditation parts. We had quite a row over it.
The thing is, cultures always borrow from each other, so I don't personally see the problem, but I'm a white guy.
In this case, if the teacher in Georgia is removing the religious roots of yoga, it's "cultural appropriation". If those roots remain, it's a violation of the establishment clause.
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)It's funny how such ridiculousness comes from all over.
bananas
(27,509 posts)so India started taking these things seriously.
And it is a fact that yoga is a spiritual and religious practice. It is a misrepresentation to take a few exercises out of context and call it "yoga".
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knightmaar
(748 posts)... yoga is a spiritual and religous practice that was brought in to our country by people who spread it as a non-religious, meditational and stretching practice. How would people here know they'd been handed this down incorrectly?
The other problem is, naturally, that every religious practice derives (i.e. is appropriated) from some previous religion.
Can we ban Protestants and Mormons since they appropriated Catholicism? Catholics for appropriating Judaism? Jews for whatever polytheistic religion their beliefs sprang from? It gets muddy awfully fast when you try to rule who has the "real" religion and who is stealing.
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)I feel bad for anyone who isn't one them, but has to live in an area populated with 'em.
RobinA
(9,888 posts)with respect to simple mindfulness practice without any crystals, Buddha or anything remotely religious or spiritual. I heard a fellow "professional" object to the fact that we were allowed to teach Eastern religion but Christianity was banned. I had no idea what she was talking about at first. This is in a mental health setting and the objection was to "concentrating on our breathing for two minutes." I thought the person in question was a crackpot, didn't realize this was a "thing."
DavidDvorkin
(19,473 posts)They want rigid ones.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)"And now let's do 'downward Deuteronomy."
mr clean
(170 posts)crazies that think the children will start wearing tight yoga pants and calling it porn.
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)Seems a person has to try harder these days to avoid learning something, at least! So many ways you can inadvertently learn something useful, something that matters!
Looks as if they need to spend more time back under their rocks. They really don't have a clue about the human race.
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