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Vatican's Exorcist: Yoga Is Satanic

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First Posted: 11/29/2011 1:29 pm Updated: 11/29/2011 1:29 pm

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Yoga is the work of the devil, according to a man who claims to have banished evil spirits from 70,000 people.

Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's chief exorcist, says yoga leads to a belief in Hinduism, and "all eastern religions are based on a false belief in reincarnation."

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Yoga is the work of the devil, according to a man who claims to have banished evil spirits from 70,000 people. Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's chief exorcist, says yoga leads to a belief in Hinduism...
Yoga is the work of the devil, according to a man who claims to have banished evil spirits from 70,000 people. Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's chief exorcist, says yoga leads to a belief in Hinduism...
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Titania Tesseract
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09:25 PM on 02/13/2013
"All eastern religions are based on a false belief in reincarnation." Let me fix that for you: "All religions are based on a false belief." ;-)
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YeOldeSnark
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10:48 PM on 06/17/2012
Ha ha, more looney tunes from Father Amorth. So, where are the Merry Melodies to go with this old Catholic Tarot card reader. I think Benny just keeps him around for laughs or as some kind of Vatican court jester.
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TParrish
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07:54 AM on 06/14/2012
I think this guy has things all wrong, although I HAVE been in some Iyengar classes in which my hamstrings thought they were in Hell.
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Canary503
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08:40 AM on 06/10/2012
Satan is a Christian concept; yoga, as a non-Christian belief system/lifestyle cannot, therefore, be Satanic. The Vatican's exorcist appears to be an uneducated bigot, and nothing more.
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10:13 AM on 06/08/2012
Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's chief exorcist was in Italy promoting an American exorcist film while Cardinal Dolan was in Cincinnati promoting an American manufacturer of baby diapers for the anticipated deluge of babies produced as a result of his stand against contraception.
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YeOldeSnark
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10:51 PM on 06/17/2012
Dolan and Amorth are spending their declining years as publicity seekers and comic figures. No wonder the pope tolerates both of them. They're a barrel of laughs.
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GungaGalunga
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07:25 PM on 02/18/2012
Vatican is nervous.
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hem3165
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09:59 AM on 02/07/2012
baps.org you will find your answers
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hem3165
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09:53 AM on 02/07/2012
Understand the reality before you stated your ideas. you just don't understand the reality of yoga!
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YeOldeSnark
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10:56 PM on 06/17/2012
I should say since Cistercians/Trappists and other Catholic monks have been practicing yoga for at least 50 years, this priest exorcist Amorth had best be looking to his own colleagues in the Vatican for any signs of the power of Satan. Everything seems to be just fine with the monks and other practicioners elsewhere.
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Desiboy1
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06:09 PM on 01/06/2012
Hindusim is very abstract and does not have specific doctrines. For example Kama(lust or sensual pleasure) is a goal of life in Hindu philosophy . For someone who wants to be make money or be wealthy Hinduism is very convenient because you can claim Dharma and pretty much do anything you feel like doing. Morality becomes secondary, philosophy becomes primary in life.
On the other hand, Hinduism is very accommodating of other faiths.
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hem3165
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09:54 AM on 02/07/2012
You reply relates to the materialistic life not the spiritual way of life
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SuperiorConservative
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03:44 AM on 12/21/2011
Well, an awfully large percentage of Christians also believe in reincarnation...as basically a sort of purgatory. The Christian churches might not admit it...but many followers take reincarnation seriously.
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GungaGalunga
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07:27 PM on 02/18/2012
Very true Sup. And Karma takes a big first. We may never see it happen but it does.
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rejikunnumpuram
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12:23 AM on 12/21/2011
Yoga is an applied science, appropriate body stretch with harmonized inhale and exhale can maintain well being and balanced attitude for all human being.
– Reji Kunnumpuram.
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01:25 PM on 12/13/2011
*sigh* the stunning amount of ignorance and baffling, narrow-minded stupidity displayed by some of the people who follow this religion would be laughable if it didn't have an already stagnating effect on the progression of our society.
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arliobserver
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07:55 PM on 12/11/2011
FACT : Some Priests molest small boys.
FICTION: Yoga is of Satan.
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grizzly bear55
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09:05 PM on 12/11/2011
It's not limited to priests, all religions have their own.
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arliobserver
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11:47 PM on 12/11/2011
Duhhhhhhhhh concentrate on the thread -
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forestnfama
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07:47 PM on 12/11/2011
And Bullshit leads back to Catholicism.......I wouldn't put to much credence into a church of pedifiles.
So using his logic Catholicism leads to gay......if you are a father of the cloth.......
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grizzly bear55
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07:43 PM on 12/11/2011
I agree with him.

How else they get twisted in all kid of shapes? it's the work of the devil.
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