Those are thick legs??
If you aren’t pushing your religious “faith” on others and trying to control their beliefs and freedoms and rights, then this isn’t about you. Quit being offended and move along. We are mad at assholes who do things like the people in the article. No, seriously. Your beliefs are none of our business and we couldn’t…
Fuck those people who come down on you because the answer may be NO. At about 4-5 months my son started waking up every 40-60 mins and wanted to be rocked to sleep every time (not fed). After about four weeks I was about to have a mental breakdown. We did some very gentle sleep training and he’s been a sleeping rock…
So you agree with the position that the people who would try to stop yoga in public schools on religious grounds are wrong but you thought, fuck it, let's defend blind faith instead?
Actually, I classify myself more as an agnostic. I can’t know what’s out there and neither can you so what’s the point in insisting something that is pretty damn farfetched is the only right way to be and to govern countries and kill people for it?
Yoga helped my preschoolers with self-control. When they would get upset, I would ask them to “stand like a tree” and feel their breath. It would calm them right down and we would be able to work through whatever issues had come up.
Not to mention the fact that the sky-dad people essentially invented capitalism. So they’re not just buying in to the system—it's their system.
Well, exactly. IF people treated religion as just a set of personal beliefs to help guide their own lives rather than dictate how the entire fucking world is run than it wouldn’t really bother me. Go to town. Whatever makes you happy. But suing? I mean, what is there to gain from that (except for money and that seems…
I’m generally in agreement with you regarding some issues like LGBT, etc, but I don’t mind people exercising religious freedom in a rather benign way like not letting their children do yoga. It’s not the end of the world. I don’t get why they couldn’t just bring in a parent’s note and sit this gym class out? Why did…
What’s hilarious about this to me is that my mom does yoga every week. At church.
From the below article: “The school system established its yoga program with a $500,000 grant from the K.P. Jois Foundation in the fall of 2012. The hope was that yoga would help the elementary school students focus on studies, keep them calm and even curb bullying.”
Agree to everything you said and just have to add that the yoga classes that school district offers are OPTIONAL! Holy shit! Why is it so hard for some religious people and conservatives to just opt out of stuff they don’t like and go on with their business?!
What about Christian yoga? Christoga anyone? Never fear Christians, Janine Turner will save you from the evils of Hinduism.
Just a small correction: You’ve had it with AMERICAN Christians and their false sense of persecution. Christian students were gunned down in Kenya this week specifically for being Christian, so let’s not pretend that Christians aren’t still routinely persecuted all over the world. But, yeah, American Christians who…
my religious freedom is being attacked because there are other religions
esp since yoga that has been exported to the west is so completely distilled that it doesn’t retain any of the religious baggage. it’s...exercise. pretty much.
Oh lord, I used to work with a lady like this. Our desks were side by side and she would chat nicely and ask me what I was doing after work or making for dinner etc. She asked me a few times if I was going to yoga which I thought was maybe interest in trying it out herself, so I invited her to come with me to a class…
If these parents were so bloody comfortable with their pretend sky-dad they wouldn’t be so threatened by a little bit of stretching.
Could they just rename it Stretchy Fun Time Class?