Southern Baptist leader on yoga: Not Christianity

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Oct 7, 5:32 AM EDT
Southern Baptist leader on yoga: Not Christianity
By DYLAN LOVAN
Associated Press Writer

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A Southern Baptist leader who is calling for Christians to avoid yoga and its spiritual attachments is getting plenty of pushback from enthusiasts who defend the ancient practice.

Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler says the stretching and meditative discipline derived from Eastern religions is not a Christian pathway to God.

Mohler said he objects to "the idea that the body is a vehicle for reaching consciousness with the divine."

"That's just not Christianity," Mohler told The Associated Press.



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[RandomThoughts]

1. Guess he left out Christ in his comment

Christianity teaches.

The idea that the body of Christ is a vehicle for reaching consciousness with the divine.


Note, "many pens"

And what is pride?

[chieffeathers]

4. yuck

LOL

It's not Christianity but his point is funny...but then most points are.

[GodlessBiker]

7. Is lifting weights christian? We're talking about exercise. Atheists practice yoga.

[The Magistrate]

2. He Is Right, Ma'am: It Is Not Christianity

[indimuse]

3. These people are SOOO STOOOPID!!

!!!

[customerserviceguy]

5. He's also looking into macrame

He's pretty sure there's something twisted about it...

[msanthrope]

13. You think acupuncture needles him, too? n/t

[customerserviceguy]

16. Insects clearly bug him, too!

[struggle4progress]

6. I wonder if he will next denounce football as not being Christianity

I've always suspected football was the real religion of Dixie

[safeinOhio]

10. But, unfettered capitalism is?

[struggle4progress]

12. Sorry. I've lost the thread of the conversation here

I used to do yoga and thought it great exercise. Meanwhile, the wacko fundies have been loudly denouncing it as a tool of the devil for as long as I can remember

The standard male exercise when I was growing up in the South, however, was football -- and it had definite cultic aspects. The football crowd I knew would have turned up their noses at yoga and would have found in it all sorts of questions about my masculinity, which would have led to all sorts of other questions about my strange views and beliefs

The Southern Baptists, of course, would not dare question the cult of football: nobody would take them seriously

If you want to know something about my views on capitalism, you can find (by searching this forum) that I have here repeatedly suggested it is a religious cult

[Yeahyeah]

8. Jesus was into calesthenics.

Now drop and give me 40.

Jesus actually invented and popularized the jumping jack.

[tanyev]

9. Good. Then he won't be coming to my class.

It's way too crowded already.

[RainDog]

11. how can anyone belong to this backward, ridiculous church?

you have to check your brains at the door to be a southern baptist. honestly. they teach the most ridiculous, irrational things - how can anyone in good conscience take their children to a church like this to hear such b.s.?

[Javaman]

14. One day, I hope this "leader" throws out his back. :) nt

[edhopper]

15. In college

I was learning to meditate through TM.
Now I wasn't buying into any of the spiritual teachings, I just thought meditation would held keep my mind sharp for studying.
When the Rabbi at my Temple back home heard of this he bemoaned that I was wandering away from the Torah.
I thought it was an incredibly stupid response and helped me on my way to atheism.