Yup...Yoga is the devil's work

valkyrie · #1 01-10-2007, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by centaur532

Buddhism isn't a religion, it's a faith practice and doesn't go against christianity. It's possible to be buddhist and christian. But being that most people don't know that, I'm not surprised.
Also, my mum probably would have reacted the same way if I'd been doing yoga in school I think.

Oh noes are we going there again? You cannot be Buddhist and Christian. You can be Christian and engage in certain Buddhist practices or agree with certain Buddhist philosophies, but you cannot be Christian and Buddhist.

ETA: Here is an earlier "discussion" on this issue.

RU OX Alum · #2 01-10-2007, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by valkyrie

Oh noes are we going there again? You cannot be Buddhist and Christian. You can be Christian and engage in certain Buddhist practices or agree with certain Buddhist philosophies, but you cannot be Christian and Buddhist.

That's right, and here's why:

Jesus and the Buddha said a lot of stuff that goes hand in hand, and a lot of stuff that contridicts each other. With the "new age" movement going for a more Bahai'i type thing than a U/U type thing, the commonplace practice is to claim to be observing the truth of both religions or even to be both "christian and buddhist"

It doesn't work because jesus said "I am the way to salvation/enlightenement/freedom"

and meanwhile buddha said "work out for yourself your own salvation/enligtenment/liberation." In Buddhism you save your self. That is not the only difference but it does make them mutually exclusive.

valkyrie · #3 01-10-2007, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

It doesn't work because jesus said "I am the way to salvation/enlightenement/freedom"
and meanwhile buddha said "work out for yourself your own salvation/enligtenment/liberation." In Buddhism you save your self. That is not the only difference but it does make them mutually exclusive.

So only Jesus could be a Christian Buddhist. LOLZ.

CutiePie2000 · #4 01-10-2007, 06:24 PM

valkyrie,
don't be reading those "devil" Harry Potter books either, you heathen you.

valkyrie · #5 01-10-2007, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

valkyrie,
don't be reading those "devil" Harry Potter books either, you heathen you.

LOL I've never read any Harry Potter books, but I hate them a lot -- not because they're satan, though.

Kevlar281 · #6 01-12-2007, 02:52 AM

One could argue that football is a religion in Texas but were not about to ban that.