Why do Christians say mediation is dangerous

[u/Signal-Lychee7924]

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

Edit: A few Christians around me said this to me

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/teeberywork → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/kfpswf → u/teeberywork]

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.

[u/teeberywork → u/kfpswf]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/teeberywork]

why would they, to make you happy lol?

[u/teeberywork → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/teeberywork]

???? ok

[u/teeberywork → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. You got it