The Dark Side of Karate
The Story of Tonie Harris Gatlin
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Enter the Dragon Probing the pitch black cell with his mind, the initiate assessed his situation in silence. Locked away in this dank underground labyrinth far beneath the monastery, he had passed every test, defeated every foe – until now. Then he saw--or rather sensed--far above what had to be the only way out – two tiny openings barely large enough for a man's hands and arms and separated by approximately a shoulder's length of distance. Yes, the moment for which his years of training were dedicated was here at last. Meditating upon the Ki force within, he expelled a hairsplitting shriek and sprang up the wall with superhuman effort, grasping for the holes. Yes! In the split second before falling back into the darkness and certain death, he clutched their edges, a sudden excruciating pain exploding through his arms. Blindly he had grasped the sides of a huge, red hot metal vessel. Yet, desperate for life in the midst of intense agony, the initiate clung to his only hope of survival. As he did, the wall on which he hung creaked into life and a massive stone door ground open with agonizing slowness, depositing him outside the labyrinthine monastery. His trial was over. Victorious at last, he was now a Certified Master of the Shaolin Monastery. And seared into the flesh of each arm as a perpetual reminder of his agony and triumph were two dragons. *** Tonie sat remembering. She, too, had escaped from a hellish labyrinth seared with the brand of the serpent-dragon. In her soul. In the 20 years since Bruce Lee’s film Enter the Dragon first swept her into a new world, she had come a long way... "I was determined to take complete control of my life, no matter what. And training to kill seemed like the best way." The serpent’s seed had found fertile soil.
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About the Book
Are the martial arts destructive? Can Christians participate without compromising Christ?
Few voices were speaking out about the martial arts...
- Their promotion of an Eastern religious worldview...
- Their focus on an occult concept of energy...
- The dangers of "mindlessness"...
Until Now...
The Dark Side of Karate follows the rise and fall of one of the nation’s top women karate experts and under girds it with an in-depth Biblical analysis of the martial arts.
- Follow Tonie Harris Gatlin’s meteoric rise to national fame, her disastrous breakdown, and her dynamic transformation in Jesus Christ.
- Learn how occult ideas and techniques entered the United States through the martial arts and how to identify them.
- Understand the differences between the Eastern religious and Biblical worldviews.
- See the powerful influences of feminism and lesbianism, the dangers of some Eastern religious techniques, and the real meaning of the popular dragon symbol in the martial arts.
- Learn how to strip off the armor of darkness and put on the armor of God.
This book doesn’t just say what’s wrong with the martial arts; it clearly points to Christ’s victory on the cross, God’s armor, and the right way to battle.
About the Author
Tonie Gatlin was acclaimed one of the top female martial artists of her time before her dynamic conversion to Jesus Christ in 1988. Afterwards, she continued teaching karate until God opened her eyes to the occultism and destructiveness permeating the martial arts. Today she is an associate pastor who proclaims that Christians must put on the whole armor of God. Linda Nathan has been writing, speaking, and teaching in the area of Christian apologetics since 1980. Prior to their salvation and Linda’s miraculous healing of cancer in 1976, she and her husband spent 14 years in the New Age movement. Linda has been the editor of numerous publications and is the president of Logos Word Designs, Inc.