Yoga 'the work of the devil'

[jomifl]

According to the Vatican's highly successful 85 year old chief exorcist. My yoga classes were sadly lacking, too late for a refund...

[naomi24]

Ludwig, ha ha! You're welcome. :o)

[naomi24]

//I would be happy to dismiss this old gentleman's ramblings as just that.. //

I wouldn't be happy with that. He's a dangerous old fool with too much influence.

[jomifl]

Andy..I'm not sure that passports have occupation on them any more.. but it would be great at the job centre(if you really didn't want a job)

[ChuckFickens]

I'd love to be able to put exorcist on my passport! (or assassin.... though that may cause problems at immigration)

[andy-hughes]

It doesn't jomfil - it was just a figure of speech.

[wildwood]

It is a bit sad though..... getting to a grand old age but still so ignorant.

[sith123]

dont worry...its nonsence.

[emmie]

better tell my ma, always thought she was in league with old nick, so now i know.

[boxtops]

Thanks for the link - what a nerd. Yet again a closed mind: "Yoga leads to Hinduism" - not for all the millions of people who use yoga for exercise and reflection, but practice their own faiths as a completely separate issue.

Fancy spending your whole day exorcising anyway - do you think he's paid by the hour, or on results? :-)

[naomi24]

I don't imagine he spends his whole day 'exorcising', but I wonder how many times he's called upon to 'cast out demons'? It seems unbelievable in this day and age that he wasn't given his redundancy pay a long time ago!

[beso]

I remember a story of a church that hired its hall to a yoga class for many years until they discovered that yoga was connected to Hinduism and decided they could not permit their hall to be used for "witchcraft".

[jno]

Hinduism has exorcism too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism#Hinduism

But there are plenty of unexplained phenomena, which may be characterised as ghosts, demons and so forth. Whatever they are, if they exist it ought to be possible to act against them.

If you don't believe in the phenomena themselves, then you won't believe in the possibility of exorcism. But if you do believe that things we don't understand yet can exist, then it seems logical to believe that there are things that can be done about them - even if we don't yet understand these either.