Yoga is the work of the devil, says Vatican's chief exorcist (and he doesn't like Harry Potter much either)
And you'll never guess what his favourite film is...
By Nick Pisa
Last updated at 5:50 PM on 25th November 2011
Transaltion by Autumnson Blog
Father Gabriel Amorth has carried out more than 70,000 exorcisms in his capacity as Chief Exorcist at the Vatican.
The 85-year-old can boast 25 years in the post after being appointed by the late Pope John Paul II.
直言不諱：過去 25年作為梵蒂岡首席驅魔人的唐加百利阿莫爾特，在翁布里亞電影節的一項邊緣活動發言他不喜歡的東西
At a conference today, he surprised the delegates by revealing some of his greatest dislikes - yoga and Harry Potter.
Father Amorth, a colourful and often outspoken personality, said:'Practising yoga brings evil as does reading Harry Potter. They may both seem innocuous but they both deal with magic and that leads to evil.'
He added:'Yoga is the Devil's work. You thing you are doing it for stretching your mind and body but it leads to Hinduism. All these oriental religions are based on the false belief of reincarnation.'
Father Amorth, speaking on the subject of People And Religion at a fringe event at the Umbria Film Festival in Terni, spoke of his distaste for JK Rowling's young wizard.
He said:'People think it is an innocuous book for children but it's about magic and that leads to evil. In Harry Potter the Devil is at work in a cunning and crafty way, he is using his extraordinary powers of magic and evil.
雙胞恐怖：瑜伽將愛好者轉向印度教，阿莫爾特神父認為
'Satan is always hidden and the thing he desires more than anything is for people to believe he does not exist. He studies each and everyone of us and our tendencies towards good and evil and then he tempts us.
'My advice to young people would be to watch out for nightclubs because the path is always the same: alcohol, sex, drugs and Satanic sects.'
It is not the first time that Father Amorth has raised eyebrows with his forthright views - last year he said that the ongoing child sex scandals rocking the Catholic Church were evidence that 'the Devil was at work in the Vatican.'
While in 2006, Father Amorth, who was ordained a priest in 1954, gave an interview to Vatican Radio in which he said that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Russian dictator Josef Stalin were both possessed by the Devil.
According to secret Vatican documents recently released the then wartime Pope Pius XII attempted a 'long distance exorcism' of Hitler but it failed to have any effect.
It is also not the first time that Father Amorth, who is president of the International Association of Exorcists, has spoken out against Harry Potter saying in the past that it opens children's minds to dabbling with the occult and black magic.
可怕的：撒旦在1973年由琳達布萊爾主演的電影作工，那也許勿庸置疑是阿莫爾特神父最喜歡的電影
Today Vanda Vanni, of the Italian Yoga Association, said:'A Satanic practice? Pardon the pun but that is an accusation that is neither in Heaven or on earth. Father Amorth's accusation is completely without foundation.
'It is an outrageous thing to say - yoga is not a religion but a spiritual discipline. It is about freedom and a search to find one's inner self. It does not touch religion and has nothing to do with Satanic sects nor does it encourage people to join them.
Giorgio Furlan, who runs the Yoga Academy in Rome, said`:'There are some paths of yoga which do lead towards Hinduism but other paths are more philosophical but their is no direct link with religion and certainly no link with Satanism.
'To say such things shows you have no idea of what you are talking about - yoga controls violent impulses of the nervous system and subconscious - to be honest with me it had the effect of bringing me closer to Christianity and in particular the Catholic Church which I had abandoned as a youngster.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066289/Yoga-work-devil-says-Vaticans-chief-exorcist-doesnt-like-Harry-Potter-either.html?ITO=1490
梵蒂岡斥瑜伽邪惡
2011年11月27日
不少上班族熱愛做瑜伽，因為既可減壓又可舒展筋骨，但梵蒂岡首席驅魔人卻痛斥做瑜伽是親近魔鬼的邪惡行為，跟看魔法小說系列《哈利波特》（ Harry Potter）一樣要不得。
85歲的阿莫爾特神父（ Gabriel Amorth）， 25年前獲已故教宗若望保祿二世（ John Paul II）委任為首席驅魔人，至今主持逾 7萬次驅魔儀式。
他前天在意大利特爾尼（ Terni）一個影展，以《人和宗教》為題演說，指「做瑜伽跟看《哈利波特》一樣，會帶來邪惡」。
神父：如看哈利波特
阿爾莫特神父對英國作家羅林筆下的一眾魔法人物一樣沒好感。「大家又以為那是無害的兒童讀物，但《哈利波特》說的是魔法，是邪惡，是魔鬼以狡詐手段在作惡，施展非一般的魔術和邪惡力量。」
意瑜伽協會指沒根據
他強調「撒旦總是隱藏自己，希望人類不信他存在……然後伺機引誘人」。阿爾莫特以往也批評過《哈利波特》令兒童迷上超自然、黑魔法和巫術，但他坦言最愛的電影是 1973年荷李活電影《驅魔人》。
意大利瑜伽協會直斥阿爾莫特的指控「沒根據」，強調瑜伽並非宗教，跟印度教也沒有直接關係，「是追求自由和探索內在真我」。一名瑜伽大師更直斥他胡說：「他這番話反映他根本不知道自己在說甚麼。」
其實教宗本篤十六世在 1999年未當上教宗時，也曾發表文件，警告天主教徒當心瑜伽、禪修、冥想及其他東方修行練習所帶來的危險。
英國《每日郵報》
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/template/apple/art_main.php?iss_id=20111127&sec_id=15335&subsec_id=15339&art_id=15838536
美南浸信會領袖阿爾貝莫赫勒對瑜珈：不基督教
Albert Mohler, Southern Baptist Leader, On Yoga: Not Christianity
DYLAN LOVAN
10/ 7/10 07:04 PM
Translation by Autumnson Blog
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.
肯塔基州路易斯維爾 - 一位美南浸信會的領袖正在呼籲基督徒避開瑜伽和它的附帶精神，從捍衛古老練習的愛好者得到大量廻響。
Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler says the stretching and meditative discipline derived from Eastern religions is not a Christian pathway to God.
美南浸信會神學院主席阿爾貝莫赫勒說，來自東方宗教的舒展和冥想教導，並不是往上帝的基督徒途徑。
Mohler said he objects to "the idea that the body is a vehicle for reaching consciousness with the divine."
莫赫勒說他反對“那想法，即身體是一件交通工具達至與神的意識。"
"That's just not Christianity," Mohler told The Associated Press.
“那就是不基督教，”莫赫勒告訴美聯社記者。
Mohler said feedback has come through e-mail and comments on blogs and other websites since he wrote an essay to address questions about yoga he has heard for years.
莫赫勒說回應已通過電子郵件，和評論在博客和其它網站上出現，自從他寫了一篇文章來解決他多年來一直聽到有關瑜伽的問題。
"I'm really surprised by the depth of the commitment to yoga found on the part of many who identify as Christians," Mohler said.
莫赫勒說，“我真的很驚訝，對某部分發現許多證明為基督徒的人在信奉瑜伽的深度。”
Yoga fans say their numbers have been growing in the U.S. A 2008 study by the Yoga Journal put the number at 15.8 million, or nearly 7 percent of adults. About 6.7 percent of American adults are Southern Baptists, according to a 2007 survey by the Pew Research Center Forum on Religion & Public Life.
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."
他說他的看法“並不是偏心的基督教立場。”
其他基督教領袖已表示，練習瑜伽是不能與主耶穌的教義並存。
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.
Yoga proponents say the wide-ranging discipline, which originated in India, offers physical and mental healing through stretching poses and concentration.
"Lots of people come to yoga because they are often in chronic pain. Others come because they think it's a nice workout," said Allison Terracio, who runs the Infinite Bliss studio in Louisville.
And some yoga studios have made the techniques more palatable for Christians by removing the chanting and associations to eastern religions, namely Hinduism and its multiple deities.
Stephanie Dillon, who has injected Christian themes into her studio in Louisville, said yoga brought her closer to her Christian faith, which had faded after college and service in the Army.
"What I found is that it opened my spirit, it renewed my spirituality," Dillon said. "That happened first and then I went back to church." Dillon attends Southeast Christian Church in Louisville and says many evangelical Christians from the church attend her yoga classes.
She said she prayed on the question of whether to mix yoga and Christianity before opening her studio, PM Yoga, where she discusses her relationship with Jesus during classes.
"My objection (to Mohler's view) personally is that I feel that yoga enhances a person's spirituality," Dillon said. "I don't like to look at religion from a law standpoint but a relationship standpoint, a relationship with Jesus Christ specifically."
Mohler wrote the essay after reading "The Subtle Body," where author Stefanie Syman traces the history of yoga in America. Syman noted the growing popularity of yoga in the U.S. by pointing out that first lady Michelle Obama has added it to the festivities at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the front lawn.
Mohler said many people have written him to say they're simply doing exercises and forgoing yoga's eastern mysticism and meditation.
"My response to that would be simple and straightforward: You're just not doing yoga," Mohler said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/07/albert-mohler-southern-ba_n_753797.html
性虐待醜聞是'證據魔鬼在梵蒂岡內'：教宗的首席驅魔神父
天主教教會壓制驅魔神父
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