I've already posted a rather smart ass reply on here, but I have since watched more of this
BULLSHIT
on youtube. I am relatively new here and try to keep my inexperience to the beginner's forum, but this guy pisses me off and I feel that I need to get this off my chest!
I was introduced to bodybuilding at a relatively young age(15) but at the time I was already a pot smoker, drinker, and smoked about a pack of cigarettes a day(I was just a stupid kid,lol). Within two months of training and eating the right way, I had gained almost 20 pounds, gained strength(inner and outer) and quit all of the nasty things I was doing to my body cuz the 'high' I got in the gym was way better than anything I could buy on the street. Anyone who remembers what it is like at this age knows that it is a really awkward time, your voice cracks, you break out, you are clumsy(maybe that was just me,lol)etc. Bodybuilding helped me gain self-confidence, discipline, and a respect for my body I may have never developed otherwise. My point is that I'm sure most people could also relate equally positive experiences and I find it simply repugnant that anyone could say that it is 'of the devil'.
I am not a pro(or an am,lol) so I will not comment on Joe Weider's personal ethics, but I take these videos as an attack on bodybuilding in general and anyone who 'practices' it as well. Sorry if it seems like a rant, I just had to say something more about this. I will conclude with a piece of scripture for those who may question their involvement in this great sport from a theological standpoint.
1 Corinthians 6:19, 20 "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s."
Or for you science types
: "The electromagnetic waves generated by the electric impulses in our brain are absolutely equivalent to the ones generated by any other electric impulses; such waves go out of our brain and travel in the external space at the velocity of light, as every electromagnetic wave."
~Peace