{"id":1682,"date":"2001-11-26T11:15:53","date_gmt":"2001-11-26T16:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2001-11-26T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2001-11-26T16:15:53","slug":"yoga_the_gatewa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/26\/yoga_the_gatewa.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Yoga &#8230; the Gateway Religion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Anglican vicar in the UK has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.excite.com\/news\/r\/011123\/07\/odd-yoga-dc\">banned yoga classes at the parish hall<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">&#8220;I fully appreciate that for some people yoga is just exercise, but I am also aware that yoga is often a gateway to others things, such as Eastern mysticism,&#8221; the Rev. Dick Farr told Reuters Wednesday.  &#8220;We are here to promote Jesus and don&#8217;t want to offer a platform to anybody who is going to undermine that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ban, Farr says, has the backing of the church council and most local residents.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, given the dwindling numbers in the Anglican church, one has to wonder the point. Heck, even if the yoga instructors were busy &#8220;recruiting,&#8221; one would think anything that got folks down the local church would offer an opportunity for the Rev. Farr to do the same.  At least it seems to me that&#8217;s sort of how Jesus worked &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Anglican vicar in the UK has banned yoga classes at the parish hall. &#8220;I fully appreciate that for some people yoga is just exercise, but I am also aware&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11042,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/19\/all_your_parish_are_belon.html","url_meta":{"origin":1682,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;All your parish are belong to us!&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Apr-07 6:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"Look out! \u00a0Dave's ranting about Episcopal stuff some more! 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