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Ga. parents, offended by the ‘Far East religion’ of yoga, get ‘Namaste’ banned from

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Paleocon said:
Yoga is in fact an eastern religion. You would know this if you bothered to Google before posting.

It is disgraceful that such a thing should be taught to schoolchildren in a majority Christian country.
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Yeah we can't have nuthin' weird or subversive that we don't understand poisoning the minds of our children. Now excuse me while I go teach the younguns to chew sum tobacco and praise Jesus.
 
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OrphanSlug said:
Sigh... We just cannot help but look like total idiots on the international stage.
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Statements like this annoy me, because they have no basis in fact.

So why do foreigners keep wanting to come here to live among total idiots? :confused: We naturalize more immigrants than any other country on the planet by far. (More than six million in the last ten years). There are almost 3 million persons of Indian origin living in the U.S. (American FactFinder - Results), which is more than any country outside of India other than Nepal. And these are smart people:

In 2013, 76 percent of Indian immigrants (ages 25 and over) had a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 28 percent of all immigrants over 25 and 30 percent of native-born adults. Notably, among college-educated Indian immigrants, more than half had a graduate or professional degree. Indian students accounted for 14 percent of all temporary visa holders earning doctorates at U.S. colleges and universities, with the majority (84 percent) intending to stay in the United States after receiving their degrees, according to the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates.

Indian Immigrants in the United States | migrationpolicy.org State and Key cities
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And where do these smart people want to settle within the states? One of the most popular destinations is Georgia. So what we have are really smart people who choose to live among "total idiots." Ironic.
 
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Yeah, ignorance rears its ugly head again.

But I dont care if public schoolsl keep it or not. It's not a 'must have.' There are other physical education options.

If they want a yoga club, fine. Public schools do allow religious clubs.
 
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Lursa said:
Yeah, ignorance rears its ugly head again.
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Hey, you can't color a picture of a cross in a public school, so why a mandala? Extremism is what OCD atheists have sown, so that's what they reap. Maybe we can reset the clock if we change "In God We Trust" on our nickels from English to Sanskrit.
 
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Paleocon said:
Yoga is in fact an eastern religion. You would know this if you bothered to Google before posting.

It is disgraceful that such a thing should be taught to schoolchildren in a majority Christian country.
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I agree. We need to ban jumping jacks from gym class too. :mrgreen:

We also need to ban Good Friday as a national holiday, since it is also religious in nature.

The lengths that some will go to in order to ban something is truly ridiculous.
 
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HenryChinaski said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...igion-of-yoga-get-namaste-banned-from-school/ Of course this happened in Georgia. It boils down to "things that are different that I don't understand are bad" There is no religious aspect to yoga. I'm an atheist and I've practiced it. It's a non-religious physical endeavor completely secular and only religious if somebody decides to bring that aspect into it. Total idiocy on these slack-jawed yokels part. If more people practiced yoga they would be less violence in the world.
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...or they would be a lot more limber when they kicked your head in.

Now please excuse my while I put in season 5 of Squidbillies.
 
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HenryChinaski said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...igion-of-yoga-get-namaste-banned-from-school/ Of course this happened in Georgia. It boils down to "things that are different that I don't understand are bad" There is no religious aspect to yoga. I'm an atheist and I've practiced it. It's a non-religious physical endeavor completely secular and only religious if somebody decides to bring that aspect into it. Total idiocy on these slack-jawed yokels part. If more people practiced yoga they would be less violence in the world.
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Welcome to the bible belt... where ignorance runs rampant.
 
 
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seems the tables have turned once again and double standards are exposed.

the folks around here who are usually screaming about getting religion and religious practices out of schools are now screaming it's stupid to get rid of religious practices from schools.

what's it gonna be people?.. 1 standard or 2?.. or more?
 
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I actually think they are right on this one. If you read the article, they didn't ban yoga. They banned the religiously associated parts of it. Saying Namaste, placing the hands to center chest near the heart, and drawing Mandalas. It would be the same thing as making a kid get on his knees and put his hands together like he were praying and draw a cross. Sitting in chair pose isn't religious, but doing those other things can definitely be seen as promoting a religious view.
 
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Goobers, what else would one expect from the Ignorant.
 
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Sherman123 said:
Yoga absolutely has spiritual and religious roots in Vedic traditions. Just because it isn't being practiced in a way that explicitly highlights its origins doesn't mean that it doesn't have a spiritual heritage. I'm an atheist too and I think if we're going to be as strict as we've been with the Lemon test when it comes to moments of silence, silent prayer, voluntary religious events, organized meditation, etc then we should be uniform in restricting spiritual practices. Otherwise we should relax our stringency altogether and allow a whole class of less religious behaviors in. Furthermore in this case there was spiritual phraseology used and an emphasis on mindfulness which has a spiritual root.

Separation of Church and State either means exactly what we profess it means, or it doesn't. No exceptions for hip new age spiritual movements that also have popular exercise rituals. You wouldn't call them yokels if they had sued because they were teaching kabbalistic meditation exercises.

Bottom line: if we want people to take secularism in our schools seriously we have to enforce it equally. Otherwise they will justifiably cry foul and see it as unfair. I completely understand the parents reaction.
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Best post of the thread (so far). No wonder it's being largely ignored.
 
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I do yoga exercises every day and you can completely divest yourself from whatever religious aspect it has and just focus on the exercises and forms. All this hoopla is just silly.
 
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MorrisDay said:
Yes's, it's roots are within the Hindu religion. It is a spiritual, mental, physical, and certainly a non-violent practice. Yoga is good for the mind, body, and spirit, regardless of what religion one adheres to.
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For the fun of it, let's pretend that it really IS some kind of "religion".
To those who recoil in horror at that prospect...is YOUR faith and YOUR GOD so weak and inconsequential that the mere thought of someone stretching their muscles and humming "Oommmmmmmmm" is enough to shatter your moral foundations?

You must either have a VERY sucky God, or you just suck at practicing your faith.
By all means, stay away from yoga but don't you dare try cramming your paranoia down my throat.
If my kids want to practice yoga to get toned up and limber, just exercise your right to skip it because here in the USA it's regarded as physical fitness and doctors say it's good for you. Here, it has little or nothing to do with religion and everything to do with Junior being able to tie his shoes without his belly lopping over his belt buckle.
 
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Checkerboard Strangler said:
For the fun of it, let's pretend that it really IS some kind of "religion".
To those who recoil in horror at that prospect...is YOUR faith and YOUR GOD so weak and inconsequential that the mere thought of someone stretching their muscles and humming "Oommmmmmmmm" is enough to shatter your moral foundations?

You must either have a VERY sucky God, or you just suck at practicing your faith.
By all means, stay away from yoga but don't you dare try cramming your paranoia down my throat.
If my kids want to practice yoga to get toned up and limber, just exercise your right to skip it because here in the USA it's regarded as physical fitness and doctors say it's good for you. Here, it has little or nothing to do with religion and everything to do with Junior being able to tie his shoes without his belly lopping over his belt buckle.
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Dude, read the article before you get indignant. They didn't ban yoga. They banned certain aspects which were arguably religious in nature. I don't even see how you can correlate someone not wanting some aspects of foreign religious practices shoved down their throat in a public school as them shoving their religious down your throat. That makes no sense.
 
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vash1012 said:
Dude, read the article before you get indignant. They didn't ban yoga. They banned certain aspects which were arguably religious in nature. I don't even see how you can correlate someone not wanting some aspects of foreign religious practices shoved down their throat in a public school as them shoving their religious down your throat. That makes no sense.
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In both Georgia and three years ago in California, the protesting parents saw ALL aspects of yoga as "religious indoctrination"
Parents were concerned about yoga’s spiritual origins.

“No prayer in schools. Some don’t even say the pledge of allegiance,” Cobb County mother Susan Jaramillo told NBC affiliate WXIA. “Yet they’re pushing ideology on our students. Some of those things are religious practices that we don’t want our children doing in our schools.”

Christopher Smith, whose sons attend Bullard, shared a similar sentiment on Facebook.

“Now we can’t 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,” he wrote. “This is very scary.”
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HenryChinaski said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...igion-of-yoga-get-namaste-banned-from-school/ Of course this happened in Georgia. It boils down to "things that are different that I don't understand are bad" There is no religious aspect to yoga. I'm an atheist and I've practiced it. It's a non-religious physical endeavor completely secular and only religious if somebody decides to bring that aspect into it. Total idiocy on these slack-jawed yokels part. If more people practiced yoga they would be less violence in the world.
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Imagine if the offended group was Muslim, the yoga would have stopped very likely. Otherwise protests in the streets.
 
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American said:
Imagine if the offended group was Muslim, the yoga would have stopped very likely. Otherwise protests in the streets.
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What nation do you live in?
 
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Paleocon said:
Yoga is in fact an eastern religion. You would know this if you bothered to Google before posting.

It is disgraceful that such a thing should be taught to schoolchildren in a majority Christian country.
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As others have stated, it does have a religious aspect, but that aspect is not what is taught in the vast majority of yoga studios in the US. I seriously doubt the religious aspect is being taught in schools.

yoga is a great thing to teach people of all ages. It helps strengthen the body, prevent injury, clear the mind etc...

There is nothing disgraceful about that.
 
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Paleocon said:
Yoga is in fact an eastern religion. You would know this if you bothered to Google before posting.

It is disgraceful that such a thing should be taught to schoolchildren in a majority Christian country.
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lol..... What does the easter bunny, and eggs have to do with jesus rising from the dead, why does the holiday move?
 
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TheIceman said:
Welcome to the bible belt... where ignorance runs rampant.
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As pointed out earlier in the thread, CA did the same thing back in 2012
 
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HenryChinaski said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...igion-of-yoga-get-namaste-banned-from-school/ Of course this happened in Georgia. It boils down to "things that are different that I don't understand are bad" There is no religious aspect to yoga. I'm an atheist and I've practiced it. It's a non-religious physical endeavor completely secular and only religious if somebody decides to bring that aspect into it. Total idiocy on these slack-jawed yokels part. If more people practiced yoga they would be less violence in the world.
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LOL this is epic. if this was a bible study you would probably be up in arms.
actually there is a religious aspect to yoga.

did you not read your own article?

ol wait it isn't Christianity so it is fine.
 
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Somerville said:
Some people apparently never use the internet to increase their knowledge

Parent protest teaching yoga in California schools - Nov 8, 2012 same lame reasons as the Georgia parents
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separation of church and state, separation of church and state.
so now that is a lame reason huh
interesting.
 
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