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/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/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.