{"id":32230,"date":"2013-01-17T11:28:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T18:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/gorilla-poses-in-the-mist.html"},"modified":"2013-01-17T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T18:28:28","slug":"gorilla-poses-in-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/gorilla-poses-in-the-mist.html","title":{"rendered":"Gorilla Poses\u00a0in the Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key quotation from a protester: &quot;Yoga poses are representative of Hindu deities and Hindu stories about the actions and interactions of those deities with humans. There\u2019s content even in the movement, just as with baptism there\u2019s content in the movement.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, if you teach a kid to pose a certain way, they will magically turn into a Hindu, <i>even if you don&#39;t mention any teachings about the Hindu religion.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>See, there&#39;s no religious teaching going on here, but even the <i>act<\/i> of teaching kids to assume yoga poses is being considered religious indoctrination by these Christian parents.<\/p>\n<p>Zany.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104701453897966742376\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"104701453897966742376\">Lucas Wiman<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/12\/16\/us\/YOGA-1\/YOGA-1-superJumbo.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/16\/us\/school-yoga-class-draws-religious-protest-from-christians.html?_r=2&#038;'>School Yoga Class Draws Religious Protest From Christians<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA small but vocal group of parents, spurred on by the head of a local conservative advocacy group, have likened the 30-minute classes to religious indoctrination.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/KjYCz6JnUrd' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key quotation from a protester: &quot;Yoga poses are representative of Hindu deities and Hindu stories about the actions and interactions of those deities with humans. There\u2019s content even in the movement, just as with baptism there\u2019s content in the movement.&quot; Yes, if you teach a kid to pose a certain way, they will magically turn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/gorilla-poses-in-the-mist.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gorilla Poses\u00a0in the Mist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51818,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/23\/sanays-super-team.html","url_meta":{"origin":32230,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Sanjay&#8217;s Super Team&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Jul-15 9:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"This looks pretty cool, if only because I loved Sanjay Patel's \"Little Book of Hindu Deities\" (http:\/\/amzn.com\/0452287758), as did my daughter. 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