Posted on 05/13/2011 8:25:48 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
I don’t always see eye-to-eye with Mark Driscoll but - confession time! – I admire the Seattle-based pastor’s ability to take on sacred cows. “Should Christians stay away from yoga because of its demonic roots? Totally. Yoga is demonic,” asserts the Irish-American Protestant. “If you just sign up for a little yoga class, you're signing up for a little demon class.” Certainly, the obscene profits New Age instructors are making from yoga appear Satanic.
Another welcome gem: “See, after church tonight you will go home and you will eat chicken, not human, because of the spread of Christianity. You think I’m kidding, go to a country that hasn’t had the spread of Christianity. They’re having human for dinner.”
It’s my favorite Driscoll quote – but you’ll need an advanced sense of humor to appreciate the spritely Irish-American. And, he has a point. I’ve studied nearby Papua New Guinea, and know what lurks in her forests. After the missionaries arrived, cannibalism decreased significantly.
The reality? Driscoll doesn’t pull big numbers on his Twitter account (130,196 last count count) because of sanctified multicultural talking points. But how serious and Christian is he? To allegedly concerned critics, he’s too controversial…but?
But: When I read the New Testament I picture Jesus and/or his crew turning tables, out there fishing, carrying swords, and talking up military men. Yet, some people like to see the world’s most famous carpenter, as an effeminate dandy, and want us all to live up to their repackaged image. By reminding us of the masculine Jesus, Mark Driscoll isn’t robbing us - he’s reminding us.
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I’ve listened to him a few times.
He’s been called the “Pastor of Porn” b/c no subject is off limits-I haven’t heard any of those types of sermons.
Is he trying to be shocking or truly sincere?
Clever.
LOL: I love his porn sermons. He is also known as the “cussing pastor.”
Don’t call Thursday “Thursday,” either. It has idolatrous roots! It is from “Thor’s Day,” honoring the Nordic god Thor.
No Wednesday (Woden’s Day) either. You heard me.
Honestly. Yoga is an exercise and stretching system. I don’t care if some people apply it in some sort of religious format. I can bend over and stretch my back without participating in demonic thoughts.
If you like Big Yoga, be my guest. Your life. But don’t pretend there aren’t charlatans in this so-called exercise cult.
Even yoga lovers from Asia often criticize the Californication of yoga. It’s more about money than spirituality.
I don’t have to pay for using the word Thursday. Yoga, however, looks like an industry for liberals against industry.
“If you like Big Yoga, be my guest. Your life. But don’t pretend there aren’t charlatans in this so-called exercise cult.
Even yoga lovers from Asia often criticize the Californication of yoga. It’s more about money than spirituality.
I don’t have to pay for using the word Thursday. Yoga, however, looks like an industry for liberals against industry.”
I don’t doubt there are charlatans. There are charlatans in the “ministry,” too, that doesn’t prevent me from attending church, living a Christian life, etc.
You can certainly stretch in various ways without paying anyone. I do.
When people use a twisted version of the two wrongs make a right argument, they lose me. As I said, your life. But if you just stretch – why call it yoga? It just seems odd.
Like it or not, true yoga is spiritual according to devotees and critics alike, and what distracts us from bigger things is not always healthy, if I understand Driscoll correctly. He has a point.
Of course, I’m also sympatric to Catholic Greg Gutfeld’s joke: “No one would do yoga if they were never allowed to talk about doing yoga.” It’s a handbag custom.
Haha. I can see I’ve been inviting sick jokes today with this topic. Incidentally, I’ve watched old footage of cannibals, and they were always shaking like they were possessed. Short life expectancies too, for some reason: Kids eating parents, parents eating kids, dad dreaming of his cousin as a roast dinner. Just sick.
“Long Pig, it’s what for dinner.”
Right up there with “Pork the one you love.”
“When people use a twisted version of the two wrongs make a right argument, they lose me. As I said, your life. But if you just stretch – why call it yoga? “
I don’t, necessarily. But some may think that by stretching certain parts of my body in certain ways, I am sinning, because I might hit a yoga position or pose. I think that is silly.
Remember the Biblical teaching about meat served to idols. Christians are allowed to eat meat that’s been sacrificed to idols, unless it offends their brother’s conscience. Paul said it didn’t mean anything.
Neither, I submit to you, does stretching my arms or legs this way or that - unless I consciously do it to embrace some Eastern unBiblical philosophy.
And, if it offends my brother, I won’t do it or talk about it around them. Not worth it.
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