Southern Baptist Leader: Yoga a dangerous “risk” for Christians

BY Meena Hartenstein
NY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

A feud over yoga and religion has left many Christians bent out of shape.

Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler unleashed a storm of controversy when he penned a critical essay last month titled “Should Christians Practice Yoga?”

In the piece, Mohler cautions Christians against the practice of yoga, saying that despite its evolution into a popular pastime, its spiritual basis violates the tenets of Christianity.

“Yoga begins and ends with an understanding of the body that is, to say the very least, at odds with the Christian understanding,” he wrote. “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.”

Stating that yoga “threatens” to push Christians into a “post-Christian, spiritually polyglot” reality, Mohler asks, “Should any Christian willingly risk that?”

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