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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am married to an Indian Christian and am a middle eastern Christian myself.  I agree that it should be clear that yoga arose in India in the context of the Hindu religion.

However - people use and appropriate things from other religions all the time.  Indian Christians (some of whom are part of communities who have been Christian for nearly 2000 years) run a multitude of schools and hospitals in India.  The truth is most of the students at Christian schools in India are Hindus who have zero interest in the Christian religion.  In some cases, various accommodations have been made for them such as giving an analogue of prasad during Christian religious services since Hindus don't take communion.  (Prasad is food eaten during Hindu religious services.). That could be viewed as a distortion of the Christian religion.

People admire things in other religions - take it as a complement.

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Didn't you know - if you take anything out of its original cultural context these days, it is "appropriation" and a form of cultural aggression.  Or something like that.  It's part of our new culture of "being constantly offended by everything."  My God it's exhausting.  [/quote]

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