Your views: Yoga and religious knowledge

Two recent religion stories caught my eye and I wanted to get some reader feedback on both of them.

One is about the Pew Forum’s recent U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey that surveyed people on the core teachings of major world religions. The Oklahoman’s Life section ran a story about the survey’s findings a few weeks ago. However, I thought some readers might be willing to have a little fun with this and challenge themselves.

Think you know the “ABCs” (the fundamentals) of the major world religions?

Then you are just who I am looking for.

I’d like to get a few volunteers from the Oklahoma City metro community-at-large to take a short quiz featuring some of the questions from the Religious Knowledge survey. If we can’t round up the volunteers to come take the quiz at one time, we could have each one take the quiz then agree to come back to meet with other volunteers about the quiz results.

For those unfamilar with the survey, it was conducted by the Washington-based nonpartisan Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. 

If you are interested in taking the quiz (that I will create from the survey’s questions), let me know via e-mail: chinton@opubco.com.

I plan to write a story about the quiz and the results from local participants.

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Now, let’s talk about yoga.

A story that folks are still talking about involves a Southern Baptist leader who said Christians should avoid the ancient practice of yoga.

Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Ky., said yoga is not a Christian pathway to God and should therefore be avoided. 

Mohler, on his blog, has said he has received lots of correspondence from yoga enthusiasts who disagree with him.  Here’s one of his latest blog postings on the subject: “Yahoo, Yoga and Yours Truly”

I want to know what Oklahomans think.

Should Christians avoid yoga? Why or why not?

Send me your comments, plus your name, city and daytime phone number: chinton@opubco.com. Your comments could be used for a future story.

Carla Hinton

Religion Editor

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