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Republican Candidate For Virginia Lt. Governor Denounces Yoga And Mediation As Tool Of Satan

220px-Bishopewjacksonsr_takenatrally220px-Shiva_Bangalore_Yoga appears to be the new menace these days with Catholic priests and Muslim clerics (here and here) warning of its satanic appeal. Now, E.W. Jackson, a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor in Virginia, is campaigning against the practice yoga and meditation as making people vulnerable to Satan.

Jackson’s campaign site discusses his work: “He is the Founder of Exodus Faith Ministries, a nondenominational Christian church in Chesapeake, Virginia with a satellite in Boston, Massachusetts. On July 4, 2009, he launched S.T.A.N.D. – Staying True to America’s National Destiny (www.standamerica.us), a national organization dedicated to restoring America’s founding values which were informed by the principles found within the Jewish and Christian faiths.”

However, his latest crusade concerns the perils of yoga which appear to make you more flexible only to be bent into an evil shape by Satan.

200px-YogaClassHe takes on meditation and yoga in his book Ten Commandments to an Extraordinary Life: Making Your Dreams Come True: “The purpose of such meditation is to empty oneself … [Satan] is happy to invade the empty vacuum of your soul and possess it. That is why people serve Satan without ever knowing it … Beware of systems of spirituality which tell you to empty yourself. You will end up filled will something you probably do not want.”

Jackson added:

“[M]ost people are dead spirits. As such they have the nature of Satan … Your spirit was made for attachment. It is either attached to God or to Satan, but it is not neutral.”

Jackson is no stranger to controversy (though appears an utter stranger to logic). He has labeled President Obama as having a “Muslim perspective” and said that Planned Parenthood is more dangerous the Klu Klux Klan. A yoga session at Planned Parenthood would be a perfect nightmare.

Source: Politico

54 thoughts on “Republican Candidate For Virginia Lt. Governor Denounces Yoga And Mediation As Tool Of Satan”

  1. BTW: Bob Altemeyer (see link in my previous post) is the researcher whom John Dean references in Voltaic’s post

  4. mespo:

    considering many people in Virginia watch and respect Pat Robertson, I would say that is a strategic a$$ kissing.

    These evangelical Xians are Xrazy. I am sort of surprised that Bob McDonnell is nothing but a scumbag. After reading his law thesis I thought he was a good dog faring family man.

  8. Bob Mac, I will include access to healthcare and birth control under the social issues umbrella. Poor women need and deserve this care. Gay couples deserve benefits also.

  9. Social issues bedamned when you’re hungry. I think we have a lot of haves telling the have nots what is most important to them.

  12. Bron:

    Wonder what kind of disease kissing Pat Robertson’s a$$ gets you. Cooch is good at that, too.

  13. mespo:

    Apparently the Cooch is right about cucci, it can lead to throat cancer.

    Maybe he isnt that crazy?

  14. E.W. Jackson is one of the craziest politicians to ever stand for office in the Commonwealth. He alone may insure a Cuccinelli loss though Cooch and Bob Mcdonnell (with his Star Scientific scandal) are doing their level best to make sure that happens anyway. It’s a Republican power vacuum here and like ol’ E.W. says sometimes Satan or even more likely, Bozo, will fill the void.

    For his part, Cooch seems to get just how crazy E.W. is: “I am just not going to defend my running mates’ statements at every turn,” he said. “They’ve got to explain those themselves. Part of this process is just letting Virginia voters get comfortable with us, on an individual basis, personally.”

    Memo to Cooch: We’re not comfortably with crazy.

  15. S mom, I went to the link and had a flashback. Kerry running in 04, after the swift boating, his pro lgbt stance was a huge controversy in the southern states. By saying pro LGBT I mean he wasn’t a raging lunatic against it.
    Virginia Repubs are oh so 10years ago,…. er eh 50years ago? …100?

  16. Of course he does…. When you look up the definition of the ord satan…. It means adverse… Opposer….. Wait…wait… Don’t tell me…

  19. As John Dean wrote in 2006:

    What I found provided a personal epiphany. Authoritarian conservatives are, as a researcher told me, “enemies of freedom, antidemocratic, antiequality, highly prejudiced, mean-spirited, power hungry, Machiavellian and amoral.” And that’s not just his view. To the contrary, this is how these people have consistently described themselves when being anonymously tested, by the tens of thousands over the past several decades.

    Authoritarianism’s impact on contemporary conservatism is beyond question. Because this impact is still growing and has troubling (if not actually evil) implications, I hope that social scientists will begin to write about this issue for general readers. It is long past time to bring the telling results of their empirical work into the public square and to the attention of American voters. No less than the health of our democracy may depend on this being done. We need to stop thinking we are dealing with traditional conservatives on the modern stage, and instead recognize that they’ve often been supplanted by authoritarians.
    http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/07/john_dean_autho.html

    There are just enough of these whack jobs to grab high political office, especially when only 40% of the electorate votes, As a result, 21% of the electorate is enough to put these fools in office. While the majority of eligible voters stay home watching reruns of Cheers, the religiously fervoured 21% are at the polls voting for these demons of democracy.

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