"I am turning people on to my religion. I'm a bodybuilding priest in a sense."
- Tom Platz, Muscle & Fitness, July 1980
And if so, should Hedgehog move all threads to the Religious Debates & Threads?
You are more retarded than I initially though
Bodybuilding is not a religion: A religion is a set of beliefs and practices generally held by a community, involving adherence to codified beliefs and rituals and study of ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and mystic experience. The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.
Bodybuilding is a lifestyle and just in case you try to explain your dumb ass out if this by twisting the truth and arguing that yes but we are doing exactly what a Religion is doing we don't pray but curl instead and we meet once a year to worship the musclegood at the O... please feel free to go fuck yourself...
With friendly regards
Stark