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Religious Pole
Check out this story! http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/22/pole-dancing-for-jesus/?hpt=T2
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37 Replies
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Well all I can say is "Oh Lord". My second statement whie the page was loading was "hmm… wonder if this is in Texas".. and then I saw it. LOL
Spring is an awesome place. Close enough to Houston to be fun and unstuffy, but rural enough to be pleasant and charming.
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Oh… you can also be the Temple's Booty (hee hee) that centrai Texas wouldn't be that liberal. (How I miss my ex homes in Houston/ Dallas/Austin) :(:(
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BET… bet the temple's booty.. (duh, me typo)
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OMG I just watched this on perezhilton.com! Part of me thinks, huh, weird. The other half of me thinks, You just rock on that pole with Jesus! I guess whatever floats your boat and keeps you dancin right?
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My husband called me last night because he heard Fox was going to run a story called Pole with Prayer. At first I thought of Jungle Cat and all that he has been through with dancing and putting up videos to gospel music. I was impatient and decided to google the story.
And not to be horrible but did any one else cringe when watching their form?
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I thought of Jungle Cat too…but I wish it was more like what he does.
I really respect JC and I think he presents his faith through dancing very well. Somehow this came across cheesy. I think it was the heels that threw me off!
First I don't get studios that teach new moves in heels – the excuse that it tones muscle is not good enough for preventing injuries when learning something new when you can acheive the same effect standing on the balls of your feet.
Second, I just don't see the heels as fitting in the the religious theme. I really like the idea of liturgical music pole classes but the heels just seem to not go with it.
But then maybe I'm being as hypocritical as those who think the pole doesn't go with liturgical songs either.
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Hmmmm, why does it have to be call Pole Fitness for jesus. lol Can't you just pole dance cuz you like it? Not sure what jesus has to do with it if they are not using class time to spread the word of "god" ect.
I agree Empy about both points on wearing the heels!
I feel anyone regardless of size, race, faith can pole. I think you can dance to whatever music expresses what your feeling or what you want others to feel. But calling a studio Pole Fitness for jesus is just odd.
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Veena…if i understood what I read about it when I looked up more on the studio it's the class name and it's a Sunday class which they encourage people to come in after church to dance to liturgical songs.
I think the studio is called "the best shape of your life" or something like that?
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Veena…if i understood what I read about it when I looked up more on the studio it's the class name and it's a Sunday class which they encourage people to come in after church to dance to liturgical songs.
I think the studio is called "the best shape of your life" or something like that?
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Veena…if i understood what I read about it when I looked up more on the studio it's the class name and it's a Sunday class which they encourage people to come in after church to dance to liturgical songs.
I think the studio is called "the best shape of your life" or something like that?
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I think this is a great thing for women of faith who also want to pole dance for whatever their personal reasons are and be able to feel safe in that they are not doing anything wrong. Dance can be used in religions as a way to worship and praise God, so why not pole dance in reverence to God? It's no different than Christian themed yoga classes. As a christian (while not as practicing as I would like to be) we are asked to give glory to God in all that we do. So I think this is a good thing for women who might not otherwise know the benefits of a good swing around the pole 🙂
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ahhhh….. the video made it sound like the name of the studio was Pole fitness for Jesus LOL I was like how odd. This is why I dislike media, always making things look a bit askew….
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I see nothing wierd about this except their from maybee, but mine is not perfect, so, go Ladies! Do yo thang. To me, it is fine.
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I tend to avoid news stories and videos about stuff like this because sometimes I can't help but be annoyed despite however neutral the program tries to seem, and I think like the negitivity I feel towards some of the comments made in the video is largely due to media spin and editing. For example, when one woman in the video said "Are you doing it for sex in exhange for money, you know, what are you doing it for?" my initial thought was, what?! why would you think that?? you're obviously super ignorant if you don't think that hanging upside down from a pole isn't a workout – that's what they're doing it for, not sex trafficking! And then I thought, well she could have easily been saying "I think it's a great idea but some people might have this misconception…" in the part that was cut out. I think even when the news program wants to appear neutral, they probably cut things together in a way that will polarize viewers and fuel debate on both sides… which seems a little underhanded if you ask me.
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I just hate that they feel they have to bring religion into it in order to not be judged harshly for doing it. I have my pole right in the middle of my living room and I know I am judged quite harshly for it when my religious in laws come over. In fact I'm sure most people that walk into my house judge me but it's just a piece of exercise equipment to me. So I don't see anything inappropriate about it being out there for everyone to see. If all those judgemental people only knew what fun exercise they were missing out on!!
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