This just supports my long-held theory: “If it upsets the Vatican, it must be good!”
As a rather slack yogi who loved the Harry Potter movies, all I can say is, this is total nonsense propagated by an elderly man with a closed mind and no sense of humor.
In other words, an Italian Republican…
This is an example of why the Vatican is becoming increasingly irrelevant to so many Catholics and non-Catholics today….
The Vatican’s former chief exorcist says yoga and Harry Potter are tools of the devil.
“Practicing yoga is Satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter,” Father Gabriele Amorth said this week.
Those seemingly “innocuous” Potter books convince kids to believe in black magic, he said.
“In Harry Potter the Devil acts in a crafty and covert manner, under the guise of extraordinary powers, magic spells and curses,” said Amorth.
As for yoga, it leads to Hinduism and “all eastern religions are based on a false belief in reincarnation,” the 86-year-old priest said.
Amorth made the hellraising remarks at a film festival in the Italian city of Umbria, where he was invited to introduce a movie about exorcism called “The Rite,” which stars Anthony Hopkins, the Telegraph of London reported.
“Satan is always hidden and what he most wants is for us not to believe in his existence,” he said. “He studies every one of us and our tendencies towards good and evil, and then he offers temptations.”
Science can’t explain evil, added Amorth, who claims to have performed 50,000 exorcisms before retiring in 2000. He is both founder and honorary president for life of the International Association of Exorcists.
No surprise, Amorth’s favorite movie is “The Exorcist.”
While the Jesuit’s remarks might strike many as the ravings of a man possessed, Pope Benedict once warned of “subtle seductions” in the Potter books that “dissolve Christianity in the soul.”
The Pope has also warned that yoga “can degenerate into a cult of the body.”
Lost in the 21st Century 