The persecution begins:LOUISVILLE, Ky. – 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.
Ancient? If it's so ancient, why did it not show up until hippies did? If it was ancient, Jesus would have done it (or more likely, directly condemned it).
I think it's absurd that new agers will go ahead and believe any nonsense just because it's "
ancient". You hear them talking about how in
"Atlantis people lived to be hundreds of years old and could build towers up to the heavens" - because they were ANCIENT! You'll never find any nonsense like that in Christianity.
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
Christianity is not about deeds, it is about having the right thoughts, and good intentions, at least on your deathbed. Which do YOU think is better, a bunch of bending over backwards, or a good, solid deathbed confession?
Mohler argued in his online essay last month that Christians who practice yoga "must either deny the reality of what yoga represents or fail to see the contradictions between their Christian commitments and their embrace of yoga."
He said his view is "not an eccentric Christian position."
Other Christian leaders have said practicing yoga is incompatible with the teachings of Jesus. Pat Robertson has called the chanting and other spiritual components that go along with yoga "really spooky." California megachurch pastor John MacArthur called yoga a "false religion." Muslim clerics have banned Muslims from practicing yoga in Egypt, Malaysia and Indonesia, citing similar concerns.
See: the Muslims have already beaten us to banning Yoga. As anyone who has heard Newt Gingrich talk about the Manhattan Mosque knows, what Muslim theocracies do is what we should do.