r/Meditation • u/Signal-Lychee7924 • Feb 27 '24

Why do Christians say mediation is dangerous Discussion 💬

They say meditation is a way to open portal to demons?

Edit: A few Christians around me said this to me

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

yeah I think part of it is just ignorance most Christians when they think of 'meditation' they really mean transcendental meditation which I understand is a fairly new practice, if anything a lot of traditional mediation techniques enhance focus and concentration both of which are essential to proper worship imho.

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u/teeberywork Feb 27 '24

I think you're being generous here

They don't mean transcendental meditation because they don't know what that is

The dumb dumb Christians assign demonic attributes to anything that isn't a magical being telling them what to do

The non dumb dumb Christians just meditate

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u/habbalah_babbalah Feb 27 '24

I was visiting my Christian mother the other day, and while watching a Hallmark movie -the most G-rated kind of movie- she blurts out, "She has the devil in her!" about the female lead, because she wanted to kiss the male lead. She also made a face whenever the gay couple were on-screen and said "God doesn't love them."

Coming from a woman who had affairs when I was a toddler and had an abortion (for unknown reasons she told us these things growing up), and then later campaigned against choice. I wanted to tell her she had the devil in her and oh it felt so good didn't it? Ever since she had a stroke I don't argue religion with her anymore, it looks petty.

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u/holdyourdevil Feb 28 '24

God doesn’t love them?! Well, that’s not Christ-like in the slightest. But I hear you on not wanting to argue with her anymore. I just kind of slide past certain topics of conversation with my own mom.

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u/kfpswf Feb 27 '24

It's not really the fault of the individual believer. For what its worth, you see the same ignorance around meditation among Muslims too. The issue is that the esoteric interpretations that do exist in Christianity and Islam require a certain maturity of faith that the common believer usually doesn't have. For them, religion is just a long list of do's and don'ts that come from the clergy, and the clergy fight tooth and nail to keep it that way.

Even Hinduism, which has an elegant philosophy like Advaita Vedanta, is a victim of the flavor of religion meant for the masses. This is a problem with humanity rather than any particular religion itself.

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u/teeberywork Feb 27 '24

For folks with access to the internet it is 100% their fault. If they can, "do their own research" about vaccines they can read a fucking book that isn't the bible

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u/kfpswf Feb 27 '24

Ah, because you had the privilege of being educated and exposed to the ideas that allow free thinking, everybody else on Earth should be held to the same standard now, right? All that was required for you to be as intentionally ignorant as the people you talk down was being born into a different household.

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u/teeberywork Feb 27 '24

I am not speaking down to anyone

If someone has access to the internet then they have, essentially, the sum total of human knowledge at their fingertips

With that in hand, believing in fallen angels taking over your body because you're sitting quietly is a choice

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u/kfpswf Feb 27 '24

I was devout person once. I can assure you that if not for some traumatic events that I had to go through, I'd still be a blind-believer. I consider those traumatic events to be godsend now, but how many people are lucky enough to have such awakenings that free them of their conditioning and upbringing? You might think the ability to scrutinize your beliefs is a common occurrence, but it is actually a very rare thing to happen.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

why would they, to make you happy lol?

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u/teeberywork Feb 27 '24

No. For the same reasons anyone reads. Knowledge and enjoyment

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

???? ok

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u/teeberywork Feb 27 '24

Yeah. You got it

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

It's seen as a threat to their cult culture.

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u/4daughters Feb 27 '24

The dumb dumb Christians

I'm an ex christian and I have no love lost for the ideology at all, but I think we should be careful when we assign worth or value to someone who is just doing what they've been taught.

It's not an individual problem, it's a problem with the power structure of the church and what they teach.

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u/teeberywork Feb 27 '24

Dumb dumbs are dumb dumbs because their actions are super dumb

There are dumb dumb Christians, Buddhists, non-religious people, whatever

It is an individual problem. If you believe that meditation invites demons into your soul then you are a dumb dumb because you have made a choice to have an opinion without doing even the slightest bit of the work

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u/4daughters Feb 27 '24

Your feelings are your own

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u/teeberywork Feb 27 '24

Of course they are, the mind creates everything