‘n Goeie voorbeeld van hoe Johann en sy maatjies dink. Alles terwyl hulle in bronstydperk spoke glo wat ‘n plan vir hulle het en hulle selfs kan help in sport as hulle hard genoeg bid.
- Comment
- Reblog
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
McBrolloks 
It follows then that a good Christian is always unreasonable.
_______________________________________________________
US judge rejects school yoga ban after parents claim it ‘promotes Eastern religions’
A California judge has refused to block the teaching of yoga as part of a public school’s physical fitness program, rejecting parents’ claims that the classes were an unconstitutional promotion of Eastern religions.
Judge John Meyer acknowledged that yoga “at its roots is religious” but added that the modern practice of yoga, despite its origins in Hindu philosophy, is deeply engrained in secular US society and “is a distinctly American cultural phenomenon.”
He also said the Encinitas Unified School District had developed its own version of yoga that was not religious but distinct and separate from Ashtanga yoga.
“A reasonable student would not objectively perceive that Encinitas School District yoga does advance or promote religion,” he said.
While school district officials were pleased by the ruling, the lawyer for the parents said they probably will appeal.
“If yoga is a religion and has religious aspects, it doesn’t belong in the public schools,” said Dean Broyles, who represents Stephen and Jennifer Sedlock, whose two children opted out of yoga for physical education. “There is a consistent anti-Christian bias in these cases and a pro-Eastern or strange religion bias.”
Encinitas, about 20 miles (32 km) north of San Diego, began a pilot yoga program in one of its nine elementary schools in 2011. About 40 to 45 students – out of the 5,500 in the district – were taken out of the classes by their parents.
The Sedlocks filed suit against the district in February, arguing that yoga is inherently religious and asking teaching of the classes be banned. The parents claimed that children who opted out of the program faced bullying and teasing.
Their suit expressed concern that the school district had implemented the program with a $500,000 grant from the Jois Foundation, which promotes Ashtanga yoga.
The case was the latest twist in a broader national clash over the separation of religion from public education that has seen spirited debate on issues ranging from the permissibility of student-led prayer to whether science instructors can teach alternatives to evolution.
The plaintiffs objected to eight-limbed tree posters with Sanskrit characters that they said were derived from Hindu beliefs, as well as to the use of the Namaste greeting in class and several yoga poses said to represent worship of Hindu deities.
But by the start of the 2012-2013 school year, the Sanskrit and Namaste had been eliminated from the program, and poses had been renamed with “kid-friendly” descriptions, poses now called gorilla, turtle, peacock, big toe, telephone and other terms, according to testimony. The lotus pose, for example, is called criss cross apple sauce in Encinitas schools.
However, the plaintiffs’ expert, professor of religious studies Candy Gunther Brown, testified that yoga practice indoctrinates Hindu religious practices whether the individual knows it or not.
Dr Brown cited research suggesting yoga practice changes the user’s brain and thoughts, a sort of gateway drug to the occult, Meyer said.
The judge did not agree with her, saying, “Dr Brown has an obvious bias and can almost be called being on a mission against yoga.”
School district Superintendent Timothy Baird applauded the ruling, and pointed out that the district had been represented for free by lawyers provided by parents whose kids take yoga in the district.
LikeLike
So much energy wasted on a concept that has no substance. Imagine humanity can somehow redirect this energy to something useful.
At home the Mandela’s are fighting over the reburial of the deceased under the guise of “tradition” (read religion). Greed will be the downfall of humanity.
LikeLike
LikeLike
Could it be that fundies are the forerunners of the “extremophiles” that will remain on earth?
*****************************
Scientists have set a new date for the end of the world – but it is not for another two billion years.
All animals and plants will vanish from the earth, which will be inherited by tiny microbes before life ends completely, says a new study.
Armageddon will arrive because of too little, not too much, carbon dioxide.
Experts are trying to find ways to cut levels of the greenhouse gas to slow global warming.
But, as the sun ages and grows hotter, greater evaporation and chemical reaction with increased rainwater will lock away more and more carbon dioxide.
In less than a billion years, there won’t be enough for photosynthesising plants to survive, said scientists. When that happens, life as we know it will cease to exist on earth.
With the loss of plants, herbivorous animals will also die out, and the carnivores that prey on them. Eventually microbes will be all that remain.
As the sun ages over the next billion years or so, more intense radiation will evaporate oceans.
When the oceans have dried up completely, only the hardiest bugs, called “extremophiles”, will inhabit the earth,
“The far future earth will be very hostile to life,” said astrobiologist Jack O’Malley-James of St Andrew’s University.
“By the time all life has disappeared from the planet, we’re left with a nitrogen and carbon-dioxide atmosphere with methane being the only sign [that once it harboured life].”
With only two billion years left until the world ends, a new date can be pencilled into diaries – 2000002013AD.
LikeLike
LikeLike