Of Camels and Gnats 0
The ability of persons who call themselves religious to be silly continually surprises me. I know it shouldn’t after all the years, but really . . . .
The Roanoke Times reports on Christians who don’t practice yoga, they practice “Praise Moves.” It just looks like yoga.
An excerpt; read the whole thing for the full impact of silly in the name of God:
Muslim clerics in Egypt and Malaysia have made similar comments. Jewish theologians also have explored the argument, giving rise to “Torah yoga” classes.
“It’s a question of how we define Hinduism, how we define yoga,” said Roanoke College religion professor Eric Rothgery, an expert on South Asian religions.
The query arises in academic and religious circles every few years. In 1989, for example, the Vatican issued a document warning Catholics that “proposals to harmonize Christian meditation with Eastern techniques need to have their contents and methods ever subjected to a thorough-going examination” to prevent adopting Hinduism and Budhism.
Truly, these folks could easily swallow a camel even as they strain at a gnat.
