Posted on 06/01/2013 12:58:39 PM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Father Gabriele Amorth is an old school priest. The octogenarian told The London Times this week that, since he was ordained way back in 1954, he has cast out some 160,000 demons.
I believe that gives Father Gabriele some authority on the devil. So when he told the Times, “Practicing yoga brings evil,” he got my attention.
I’ve long considered yoga a benign form of exercise, no more harmful than, say, aerobics or Pilates or, the apparent latest craze, Zumba. But after doing some research, I’m inclined to agree with Father Gabriele, the exorcist.
While yoga indeed has a physical component, it’s the spiritual component that leads to the devil. For yoga, defined as a “union with the divine,” is not about obeisance to the God that Christ followers worship. It’s about homage to the false gods of Hinduism.
That brings me to a lawsuit, brought by parents of children enrolled in the Encinitas Union School District in California, challenging the yoga program the district mandated for its nine public schools, under the guise of “physical education.”
Funding for the program comes from the KP Jois Foundation, which promotes a form of yoga called Ashtanga. The Ashtanga practice traditionally begins with a mantra, which concludes, “To Patanjali I salute.”
“Lord” Patanjali, as he is known by the Hindu faithful, is considered to be one the incarnations of Shesha, a many thousand-headed serpent god.
The Encinitas Union School District maintains that its district-wide yoga program is strictly secular; that neither Shesha, the serpent god, nor Patanjali, his human avatar, are anywhere to be seen.
But that’s not what Harvard-trained religious scholar Candy Brown found when she visited the Encinitas public schools. “I see it all over the place,” she testified in court a fortnight ago.
And even though the school district insists that there is no chanting of mantras, Dr. Brown provided the court written statements from teachers in the district that children have, in fact, been observed chanting while doing their yoga.
They were sending shout outs to Patanjali, the several-thousand-headed serpent god, and they were none the wiser.
Now, many may think the court case in California is much ado about a trifle. And even some Christians may argue that there is nothing unGodly about yoga. That they separate their faith and their workout. That Shesha and Jesus can peacefully co-exist.
Well, that’s KP Jois Foundation wants Encinitas parents. That’s what the devil wants all of us to think.
Which should bring to mind to all of us who count ourselves Christ followers the challenge Joshua issued to the children of Israel: “Choose you this day whom you will serve.
The choice for the Joshua’s people was between the gods their fathers served “that were on the other side of the flood,” or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land they dwelled after the Exodus, or the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The choice today for those who consider themselves faithful Christians, who have been advised by Father Gabriele and others that yoga is a gateway to evil is whether they will stand with the Lord, or sit, in Lotus position, in homage to the serpent god Shesha.
people who are wrong about stuff disagree with people who are right, all the time. that’s why we enjoin in battle against liberals.
Does Obama actually carry those religious items in his pocket? I’ve never heard a word about it. If it were Sarah Palin or Nancy Reagan or George Bush carrying those items, it would have been fodder for liberal mockery, proof of their superstitious minds and feeble intellect.
Yoga is not evil nor of the devil.
If people want to believe that, that’s their free choice.
Also, Hinduism is not of the devil.
There is one God, not many. Some people worship Him one way, some slightly differently. Hating those of other religions (not counting Islam, as they want to kill us all) is not a way to serve God.
Silly cults arguing over imaginary friends and enemies.
160,000 “demon” exorcisms? LOL.
Hanuman.
Also known as an incarnation of Shiva the Destroyer.
Well some words from the Bible come to my mind here...
“Abstain from all appearance of evil”
so I would not do YOGA because if there is doubt then don’t....
I prefer Whataburger, found here in the great state of Texas.
Well, all those demons had to go SOMEwhere, didn’t they???
hmmmmMMMMMM????
Read Kipling’s “The Mark of The Beast” for a tale of demonic possession through the power of Hanuman.
At a party a woman was telling me about the benefits of Hathayoga. I said, “Oh well, hatha yoga is better than none!”
She spun on her heel & stormed off.
;^)
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