Usually, it’s fringe outlets like WorldNetDaily who spend way too much time freaking out about yoga being some sort of secret sinister religious practice. Apparently, the Media Research Center has decided it wants in on some of that action.
Matthew Balan had to go pretty far afield to get outraged in a March 28 item — specifically, to a article in Quartz, “an online magazine from the parent company of The Atlantic,” that turned a spotlight on “yogaphobic” Christians. Balan complained that the article’s author — a professor at “Indiana University-Perdue [sic] University Indianapolis” — used a “left-leaning/pro-yoga spin,” as if yoga somehow turns people liberal.
After highlighting that the article noted criticism of yoga by Catholic officials, Balan sneered, “In other words, how dare the Catholic Church point out how non-Christian religious practice can be dangerous for the spiritual health of believers!”
Balan concluded by asking whether the article’s author really thinks “Christians are going to end up persecuting Hindus because of supposed ‘yogaphobia.'” The greater risk, arguably, is more uninformed articles like Balan’s.
After all, why should WND have all the uninformed rants?
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