#2 Religions that their parents don’t belong to
January 18, 2008 by clander
White people will often say they are “spiritual” but not religious. Which usually means that they will believe any religion that doesn’t involve Jesus.
Popular choices include Buddhism, Hinduism, Kabbalah and, to a lesser extent, Scientology. A few even dip into Islam, but it’s much more rare since you have to give stuff up and actually go to Mosque.
Mostly they are into religion that fits really well into their homes or wardrobe and doesn’t require them to do very much.
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All white people engage in another ritual, this one quite early on in life: learning to write, speak, and punctuate the English language correctly. I hope your English instructors (for the love of God, I hope you are just recently learning the language) are trying to impart this to you.
Outside the moneyed urban enclaves of America, there will be millions of white people, black people, Latinos, Asians and so on who are totally into church attendance or living a religious-oriented life. Check out the nondenominational kind where it has a large following among young adults (esp. males) from already dogmatic Christian families, they hold Christian rock concerts and recreation programs like bible-reading and outdoor activities (JC Lander, you can come…they won’t care you’re Jewish or even secular).
One thing white people like to say, is to say things like Yoga are not religious just spirtual!
Hey, check out http://www.cybernations.net !
It means some people substitute things like yoga for overtly spiritual pursuits, like religion. When you take actual religion away, it creates a spiritual vaccuum people are desperate to fill. This isn’t to say yoga itself is inherently useless. but Baf, not as many people strangely find spiritual the experience of doing sit-ups or walking a stairmaster as they do in yoga.
If you still don’t get it: Yoga as stretching and even a relaxation technique isn’t bogus, yoga as alterative spiritual experience is.
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oh yeah, and the same white people who won’t go to their parents’ church or temple because religion is “the opiate of the masses” are the same lame people who you see bowing and kneeling in temples in Thailand, China or India, feeling very spiritual while they’re traveling on their “year off”.
i think you’ll find that opiates are in fact the opiate of the masses.
agreed
This is so true ~ how out of style to believe what your parents believe. My 18 year old niece just started college and is “exploring” other religions. I can’t wait until she finally realizes that “qi” and “zen” and yoga are bogus. Sure, it might be cool to burn incense in your room or hang some weird symbol (purchased at Urban Outfitters…seller of cheesy religious amulets), but there’s just no substance. She’ll come around.
Excuse me, but yoga is not a religion. It never pretended to be one, it will never become one. But you are right, yoga has no religious substance and it cannot substitute religion.
yoga is bogus? so bogus it didn’t need to be in “quotes” ?
does this mean that any other form of stretching and breathing exercises are also bogus?
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