In addition to mounting an unrelenting jihad against LGBT Americans, Albert Mohler, a pillar in the Southern Baptist Convention ("SBC") theological world, has now launched an attack on yoga. That's right, yoga . *
Mohler in his craziness sees yoga as a threat to Christian thought. Truth be told, ANYTHING that isn't 100% consistent with and subservient to Mohler's narrow and extreme religious beliefs - and by extension, those of the SBC - is to be stamped out and labeled as something bordering on the demonic. Mohler apparently cannot tolerate any beliefs or practices that depart from - and in his mind threaten - his own house of cards belief structure. To me, Mohler is representative of the increasingly hysterical Christianists who have such a fragile and misplaced faith that they simply cannot tolerate anything or anyone that fails to embrace and their beliefs and, thereby, suggest that they are in error. Mohler and those like him simply cannot stand anything that doesn't reinforce their slowly collapsing belief system. It's as if Mohler and his fellow Christianists know that they have misplaced their faith and inflicted serious damage upon themselves and others, but do not want anything to be allowed that might expose their lies and errors. Here's some highlights on Mohler's rant against yoga:
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To a remarkable degree, the growing acceptance of yoga points to the retreat of biblical Christianity in the culture. Yoga begins and ends with an understanding of the body that is, to say the very least, at odds with the Christian understanding. Christians are not called to empty the mind or to see the human body as a means of connecting to and coming to know the divine. Believers are called to meditate upon the Word of God — an external Word that comes to us by divine revelation — not to meditate by means of incomprehensible syllables.
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Nevertheless, a significant number of American Christians either experiment with yoga or become adherents of some yoga discipline. Most seem unaware that yoga cannot be neatly separated into physical and spiritual dimensions. The physical is the spiritual in yoga, and the exercises and disciplines of yoga are meant to connect with the divine.
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When Christians practice yoga, they must either deny the reality of what yoga represents or fail to see the contradictions between their Christian commitments and their embrace of yoga. The contradictions are not few, nor are they peripheral. The bare fact is that yoga is a spiritual discipline by which the adherent is trained to use the body as a vehicle for achieving consciousness of the divine. Christians are called to look to Christ for all that we need and to obey Christ through obeying his Word. We are not called to escape the consciousness of this world by achieving an elevated state of consciousness, but to follow Christ in the way of faithfulness.
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Christians who practice yoga are embracing, or at minimum flirting with, a spiritual practice that threatens to transform their own spiritual lives into a “post-Christian, spiritually polyglot” reality. Should any Christian willingly risk that?
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Obviously, Mohler takes himself far too seriously and needs to get his head out of his ass. He also is a symptom common in Christianists who "put God in a box" and display an outrageous hubris of trying to dictate to God as much as the sheeple who continue to listen to their asinine braying.
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To a remarkable degree, the growing acceptance of yoga points to the retreat of biblical Christianity in the culture. Yoga begins and ends with an understanding of the body that is, to say the very least, at odds with the Christian understanding. Christians are not called to empty the mind or to see the human body as a means of connecting to and coming to know the divine. Believers are called to meditate upon the Word of God — an external Word that comes to us by divine revelation — not to meditate by means of incomprehensible syllables.
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Nevertheless, a significant number of American Christians either experiment with yoga or become adherents of some yoga discipline. Most seem unaware that yoga cannot be neatly separated into physical and spiritual dimensions. The physical is the spiritual in yoga, and the exercises and disciplines of yoga are meant to connect with the divine.
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When Christians practice yoga, they must either deny the reality of what yoga represents or fail to see the contradictions between their Christian commitments and their embrace of yoga. The contradictions are not few, nor are they peripheral. The bare fact is that yoga is a spiritual discipline by which the adherent is trained to use the body as a vehicle for achieving consciousness of the divine. Christians are called to look to Christ for all that we need and to obey Christ through obeying his Word. We are not called to escape the consciousness of this world by achieving an elevated state of consciousness, but to follow Christ in the way of faithfulness.
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Christians who practice yoga are embracing, or at minimum flirting with, a spiritual practice that threatens to transform their own spiritual lives into a “post-Christian, spiritually polyglot” reality. Should any Christian willingly risk that?
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Obviously, Mohler takes himself far too seriously and needs to get his head out of his ass. He also is a symptom common in Christianists who "put God in a box" and display an outrageous hubris of trying to dictate to God as much as the sheeple who continue to listen to their asinine braying.
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