Idols and Sacrifice

How can spiritual values augment the barbell practice? That's a good question because you can easily fall into the era of idolizing the body. And that is actually a big component of gay culture going all the way back to classical Greece, the cult of Adonis. So idolatry of the body then, what does it forget? That the body is ultimately to be put at the service of others. It's purpose as we see on the cross is self-sacrifice and to bleed.

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