Posted by Thinker on July 25, 2011 at 07:24:24
In Reply to: Re: One more celebrity enticed by Hinduism posted by OT2 on July 19, 2011 at 20:41:37:
Thank you for clarifying.
To answer your questions, I do have a lot of experience of Hinduism although I have never personally subscribed to the belief.
Of course Yoga is rooted in more than just stretching exercises, but I don't believe that stretching your muscles and breathing to a yoga instructional video is some kind of inroad for the devil. There was a time when I did. That was also about the time when I swallowed ideas propagated by Christian fundamentalists that if you so much as played a certain drum beat, you could unwittingly be practicing witchcraft and welcome Lucifer into your life. Such ideas were promoted by their one-time poster child, John Todd, whose ideas even Berg and The Family espoused, enough to publish a series of letters spreading his Illuminati conspiracy theories. John Todd was later proven to be quite the liar and a certified nut case.
I believe that man judgeth on the outward appearance, but God looketh on the heart. I know where mine is and I trust God does too. When I was a child I spoke as a child, thought as a child. Now I am spiritually mature enough to know that stretching to some yoga exercise video is not going to put my soul in danger of hellfire. I also believe that I can play any beat I want on the drums, strum any chord on the guitar, listen to Jazz or Rock music, work on the sabbath, eat shellfish, eat with my left hand, walk under ladders, own black cats, act on stage, continue with various sexual activities, support interracial marriage--all of which were once considered sins by religionists. If anyone wants to decide whether I am kosher or treif, going to heaven or hell, Christian or heathen based on these, that is their problem.