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Idolatry is a technical term in Jewish law.  If you would prefer we can use the Hebrew, Avoda Zara.

And yes, appropriation happens. We, if anyone, know that. The largest religion in the world is based on appropriating texts, ideas, prayers and practices from  Judaism.  IIUC Hinduism involved mass appropriation of local religious traditions by the conquering aryans, which is one reason it is so diverse.    People appropriate ideas from one tradition, and adapt them to another.  The notion that traditions are pure seems to me to be quite ahistorical.

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1) "Conquering Aryans" is a historical narrative popularized by the colonizing British, based on a translation of "Arya" that served the interests of eugenics. The conquering Aryans, conquered Dravidians narrative has been refuted MULTIPLE times since then.

2) A slow melting pot of indigenous polytheistic traditions of the subcontinent and melding of their deities, into a religious complex that has a central philosophy of non-dualism but a wide variety of diverse yet non-mutually-exclusive religious practices, is NOT the same as what you're doing to bring yoga into an Abrahamic-happy worldview: discard and insult the originating philosophy, totally rip the asana practice from the eight limbs of yoga and the inner meaning of the asana practice, and re-work it for your own views.

Not the same thing at all, sorry. I know it's really convenient when we can play mental gymnastics to make ourselves feel better about cultural appropriation. Too bad I'm not letting you go there.[/quote]

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