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Cartoonist

(7,530 posts)
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 11:12 AM Feb 2019

Fear of Yoga

Here's a hilarious blog entry about yoga and demonic possession. How long before the religious right begins calling for legislation banning yoga?

http://afieldguidetospiritualwarfare.blogspot.com/2016/03/christian-duplicity-and-practicing-yoga.html?m=1

Possession and the Kundalini Spirit

About 2 years ago, I was in a church on a Sunday morning. The pastor preaching invited the presence of the Holy Spirit to enter the church right after worship. A woman sitting in the church service started screaming and shaking. I didn’t hear her at first, but she progressively got louder in her shrills and soon became a disruptive spectacle in the service. This woman was a few rows across from me and a couple of people sitting around her kept glaring over at me to come over and do something! I wasn’t a pastor in this church so I had to wait for the authority of the church to release me to minister. One of the pastors, who wasn’t preaching that day, and is a friend of mine, waved his arm at me to come over and minister. I calmly made my way over to the woman who was manifesting and I discerned it was some sort of witchcraft. I put my hand over her third eye and I QUIETLY ordered her third eye closed in the name of Jesus Christ. The screaming immediately stopped and the woman slowly stopped shaking. The pastor I was ministering with led the woman out of the sanctuary. Where we ministered to her in the prayer room.

In the prayer room some of the details began to unfold about this woman, whom we’ll call, Teresa. Teresa was a cancer survivor and her doctor at Stanford recommended she take up yoga for holistic purposes. Teresa liked yoga and fully embraced the life style. Teresa was raised in the Catholic church. She knew her prayers and she said she knew Jesus. However, Teresa went to India and studied under a yogi. While Teresa was in India, she became possessed with a spirit of Kundalini. By possession, I mean possession. She invited the spirit into her. As the conversation unfolded and the depth of her involvement was revealed I decided it was time for an appointment to have Teresa work with me.

Some points I want to make clear here, most Christians who take yoga are oppressed by a Kundalini spirit and not possessed. This was a unique circumstance where Teresa literally invited the spirit of Kundalini into her at a Hindu temple. Does this answer your question if a Christian can have a demon or be possessed? God gave us free will. We can use our free will and live blessed or we can use our free will to do a lot of stupid things. Like, get ourselves possessed. Please don’t send me an e-mail on why a Christian can’t be possessed. I have encountered a lot of Christians oppressed and a couple possessed. It happens. We’re allowed to fall. It’s free will.
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Uncross those beautiful stems of yours, baby, here’s the case I call Number 666.
- Nick Danger, Third Eye

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Fear of Yoga (Original Post) Cartoonist Feb 2019 OP
I've read some stories about them going after yoga underpants Feb 2019 #1
Yoga clearly presents a huge danger. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #2
There have been calls for banning yoga in school PE classes, MineralMan Feb 2019 #3
I've actually spoken out against some yoga classes in schools here LongtimeAZDem Feb 2019 #5
OK. MineralMan Feb 2019 #6
It really demonstrates the veracity of belief, does it not? Act_of_Reparation Feb 2019 #7
Dungeons and Dragons leads to devil worship, too, but dancing leads to sex. Pope George Ringo II Feb 2019 #4
My DnD campaigns invariably lead to sex. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2019 #8

MineralMan

(147,575 posts)
3. There have been calls for banning yoga in school PE classes,
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 11:24 AM
Feb 2019

based in the same ignorant claptrap.

And what's this "third eye" nonsense? When did Christians begin believing in such a thing?

All I can say to whomever wrote this crap is, "Cool story, dude!"

LongtimeAZDem

(4,515 posts)
5. I've actually spoken out against some yoga classes in schools here
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 02:04 PM
Feb 2019

Exercise is awesome, but once you start telling elementary school kids about "chakras" and other pseudo-scientific nonsense, it's a church-state violation.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
7. It really demonstrates the veracity of belief, does it not?
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 09:13 AM
Feb 2019

If the answers offered by religion were half as ironclad as its adherents profess, they wouldn't find competition nearly as threatening as they do.

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)
4. Dungeons and Dragons leads to devil worship, too, but dancing leads to sex.
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 01:13 PM
Feb 2019

I'm not actually sure which one bothers them more.

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