| Christian Fundamentalists Freak Out Over Yoga in the Military |
| Meditation and yoga help PTSD sufferers. Click through for ignorant rant of Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council. |
| LAURA GOTTESDIENER - Salon/AlterNet |
| With a temporary ceasefire declared in the war over Christmas, fundamentalist Christian conservatives are looking for other places that religion may be under attack - and one radical thinks that that place may be the military. Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, a right-wing Christian think tank that has been classified as a hate group, has flipped out over a 'wacky†new initiative being tested in U.S. military training programs. No, it’s not the end of 'don’t ask, don’t tell†- it’s yoga and meditation classes. A new Mind Fitness Training program being tested in the U.S. military has integrated yoga, breathing classes and meditation alongside other more traditional training regimes to keep soldiers calm and mentally fit and to reduce depression and use of alcohol and drugs. To Perkins, however, this new initiative is a stand-in for one’s personal relationship with God. When ... |
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Yoga is a Sanskrit word meaning; to yoke together, to unite, to facilitate two things to work in union. In this philosophical system the word yoga stands to mean the aim of humankind-the union of human with God. St. Paul referred to this union as, 'having the
mind of Christ'.... (quote borrowed from yoga-of-jesus.com)
A Yogi is "a person in union with God."
However, there are those who practice "yoga" without the purpose of including God.
Doing so is like praying with an insincere heart.