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Note from Perry Bulwer:
This post features two articles. The first is by William Lane Craig, a Christian apologist who defends religiously motivated infanticide and genocide. The second is by Greta Christina, an atheist blogger who provides an excellent response to Craig's immoral nonsense. Craig's position goes a long way to explaining the motives behind much of the child abuse documented in the news articles in this blog. Christina's position shows how the irreligious are often more ethical than those claiming moral superiority based on dogma.
"A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency— issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights — the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious."
Reasonable Faith (undated)
Slaughter of the Canaanites
by William Lane Craig
Question 1:
In the forums, there has been some good questions raised on the issue of God commanding the Jews to commit "genocide" on the people in the promise land. As you have pointed out in some of your written work that this act does not fit with the Western concept of God being the big sugar daddy in the sky. Now we can certainly find justification for those people coming under God judgement because of their sins, idolatry, sacrificing their children, etc... But a harder question is the killing of the children and infants. If the children are young enough along with the infants are innocent of the sins that their society has committed. How do we reconcile this command of God to kill the children with the concept of his holiness?
Thank you,
Steven Shea
Question 2:
I have heard you justify Old Testament violence on the basis that God had used Israelite army to judge the cananites and their elimination by Israelites is morally right as they were obeying God's command (iif would be wrong if tey did not obey God in eliminating the cannanites) . This resembles a bit on how Muslims define morality and justify the violence of Muhammad and other morally questionable actions (muslims define morality as doing the will of God). Do you see any difference between your justification of OT violence and Islamic justification of Muhammand and violent verses of the Quran? Is the violence and morally questionable actions and verses of the Quran, a good arugument while talking to Muslims?
Dr. Craig responds:
According to the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament), when God called forth his people out of slavery in Egypt and back to the land of their forefathers, he directed them to kill all the Canaanite clans who were living in the land (Deut. 7.1-2; 20.16-18). The destruction was to be complete: every man, woman, and child was to be killed. The book of Joshua tells the story of Israel's carrying out God's command in city after city throughout Canaan.
These stories offend our moral sensibilities. Ironically, however, our moral sensibilities in the West have been largely, and for many people unconsciously, shaped by our Judaeo-Christian heritage, which has taught us the intrinsic value of human beings, the importance of dealing justly rather than capriciously, and the necessity of the punishment's fitting the crime. The Bible itself inculcates the values which these stories seem to violate.
The command to kill all the Canaanite peoples is jarring precisely because it seems so at odds with the portrait of Yahweh, Israel's God, which is painted in the Hebrew Scriptures. Contrary to the vituperative rhetoric of someone like Richard Dawkins, the God of the Hebrew Bible is a God of justice, long-suffering, and compassion.
You can't read the Old Testament prophets without a sense of God's profound care for the poor, the oppressed, the down-trodden, the orphaned, and so on. God demands just laws and just rulers. He literally pleads with people to repent of their unjust ways that He might not judge them. "As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live" (Ez. 33.11).
He sends a prophet even to the pagan city of Nineveh because of his pity for its inhabitants, "who do not know their right hand from their left" (Jon. 4.11). The Pentateuch itself contains the Ten Commandments, one of the greatest of ancient moral codes, which has shaped Western society. Even the stricture "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" was not a prescription of vengeance but a check on excessive punishment for any crime, serving to moderate violence.
God's judgement is anything but capricious. When the Lord announces His intention to judge Sodom and Gomorrah for their sins, Abraham boldly asks,
"Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?" (Gen. 18.25).
Like a Middle Eastern merchant haggling for a bargain, Abraham continually lowers his price, and each time God meets it without hesitation, assuring Abraham that if there are even ten righteous persons in the city, He will not destroy it for their sake.
So then what is Yahweh doing in commanding Israel's armies to exterminate the Canaanite peoples? It is precisely because we have come to expect Yahweh to act justly and with compassion that we find these stories so difficult to understand. How can He command soldiers to slaughter children?
Now before attempting to say something by way of answer to this difficult question, we should do well first to pause and ask ourselves what is at stake here. Suppose we agree that if God (who is perfectly good) exists, He could not have issued such a command. What follows? That Jesus didn't rise from the dead? That God does not exist? Hardly! So what is the problem supposed to be?
I've often heard popularizers raise this issue as a refutation of the moral argument for God's existence. But that's plainly incorrect. The claim that God could not have issued such a command doesn't falsify or undercut either of the two premises in the moral argument as I have defended it:
1. If God does not exist, objective moral values do not exist.
2. Objective moral values do exist.
3. Therefore, God exists.
In fact, insofar as the atheist thinks that God did something morally wrong in commanding the extermination of the Canaanites, he affirms premise (2). So what is the problem supposed to be?
The problem, it seems to me, is that if God could not have issued such a command, then the biblical stories must be false. Either the incidents never really happened but are just Israeli folklore; or else, if they did, then Israel, carried away in a fit of nationalistic fervor, thinking that God was on their side, claimed that God had commanded them to commit these atrocities, when in fact He had not. In other words, this problem is really an objection to biblical inerrancy.
In fact, ironically, many Old Testament critics are sceptical that the events of the conquest of Canaan ever occurred. They take these stories to be part of the legends of the founding of Israel, akin to the myths of Romulus and Remus and the founding of Rome. For such critics the problem of God's issuing such a command evaporates.
Now that puts the issue in quite a different perspective! The question of biblical inerrancy is an important one, but it's not like the existence of God or the deity of Christ! If we Christians can't find a good answer to the question before us and are, moreover, persuaded that such a command is inconsistent with God's nature, then we'll have to give up biblical inerrancy. But we shouldn't let the unbeliever raising this question get away with thinking that it implies more than it does.
I think that a good start at this problem is to enunciate our ethical theory that underlies our moral judgements. According to the version of divine command ethics which I've defended, our moral duties are constituted by the commands of a holy and loving God. Since God doesn't issue commands to Himself, He has no moral duties to fulfill. He is certainly not subject to the same moral obligations and prohibitions that we are. For example, I have no right to take an innocent life. For me to do so would be murder. But God has no such prohibition. He can give and take life as He chooses. We all recognize this when we accuse some authority who presumes to take life as "playing God." Human authorities arrogate to themselves rights which belong only to God. God is under no obligation whatsoever to extend my life for another second. If He wanted to strike me dead right now, that's His prerogative.
What that implies is that God has the right to take the lives of the Canaanites when He sees fit. How long they live and when they die is up to Him.
So the problem isn't that God ended the Canaanites' lives. The problem is that He commanded the Israeli soldiers to end them. Isn't that like commanding someone to commit murder? No, it's not. Rather, since our moral duties are determined by God's commands, it is commanding someone to do something which, in the absence of a divine command, would have been murder. The act was morally obligatory for the Israeli soldiers in virtue of God's command, even though, had they undertaken it on their on initiative, it would have been wrong.
On divine command theory, then, God has the right to command an act, which, in the absence of a divine command, would have been sin, but which is now morally obligatory in virtue of that command.
All right; but isn't such a command contrary to God's nature? Well, let's look at the case more closely. It is perhaps significant that the story of Yahweh's destruction of Sodom--along with his solemn assurances to Abraham that were there as many as ten righteous persons in Sodom, the city would not have been destroyed--forms part of the background to the conquest of Canaan and Yahweh's command to destroy the cities there. The implication is that the Canaanites are not righteous people but have come under God's judgement.
In fact, prior to Israel's bondage in Egypt, God tells Abraham,
"Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. . . . And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites [one of the Canaanite clans] is not yet complete" (Gen. 15. 13, 16).
Think of it! God stays His judgement of the Canaanite clans 400 years because their wickedness had not reached the point of intolerability! This is the long-suffering God we know in the Hebrew Scriptures. He even allows his own chosen people to languish in slavery for four centuries before determining that the Canaanite peoples are ripe for judgement and calling His people forth from Egypt.
By the time of their destruction, Canaanite culture was, in fact, debauched and cruel, embracing such practices as ritual prostitution and even child sacrifice. The Canaanites are to be destroyed "that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the Lord your God" (Deut. 20.18). God had morally sufficient reasons for His judgement upon Canaan, and Israel was merely the instrument of His justice, just as centuries later God would use the pagan nations of Assyria and Babylon to judge Israel.
But why take the lives of innocent children? The terrible totality of the destruction was undoubtedly related to the prohibition of assimilation to pagan nations on Israel's part. In commanding complete destruction of the Canaanites, the Lord says, "You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons, or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods" (Deut 7.3-4). This command is part and parcel of the whole fabric of complex Jewish ritual law distinguishing clean and unclean practices. To the contemporary Western mind many of the regulations in Old Testament law seem absolutely bizarre and pointless: not to mix linen with wool, not to use the same vessels for meat and for milk products, etc. The overriding thrust of these regulations is to prohibit various kinds of mixing. Clear lines of distinction are being drawn: this and not that. These serve as daily, tangible reminders that Israel is a special people set apart for God Himself.
I spoke once with an Indian missionary who told me that the Eastern mind has an inveterate tendency toward amalgamation. He said Hindus upon hearing the Gospel would smile and say, "Sub ehki eh, sahib, sub ehki eh!" ("All is One, sahib, All is One!" [Hindustani speakers forgive my transliteration!]). It made it almost impossible to reach them because even logical contradictions were subsumed in the whole. He said that he thought the reason God gave Israel so many arbitrary commands about clean and unclean was to teach them the Law of Contradiction!
By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of preserving Israel's spiritual health and posterity. God knew that if these Canaanite children were allowed to live, they would spell the undoing of Israel. The killing of the Canaanite children not only served to prevent assimilation to Canaanite identity but also served as a shattering, tangible illustration of Israel's being set exclusively apart for God.
Moreover, if we believe, as I do, that God's grace is extended to those who die in infancy or as small children, the death of these children was actually their salvation. We are so wedded to an earthly, naturalistic perspective that we forget that those who die are happy to quit this earth for heaven's incomparable joy. Therefore, God does these children no wrong in taking their lives.
So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgement. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The brutalizing effect on these Israeli soldiers is disturbing.
But then, again, we're thinking of this from a Christianized, Western standpoint. For people in the ancient world, life was already brutal. Violence and war were a fact of life for people living in the ancient Near East. Evidence of this fact is that the people who told these stories apparently thought nothing of what the Israeli soldiers were commanded to do (especially if these are founding legends of the nation). No one was wringing his hands over the soldiers' having to kill the Canaanites; those who did so were national heroes.
Moreover, my point above returns. Nothing could so illustrate to the Israelis the seriousness of their calling as a people set apart for God alone. Yahweh is not to be trifled with. He means business, and if Israel apostasizes the same could happen to her. As C. S. Lewis puts it, "Aslan is not a tame lion."
Now how does all this relate to Islamic jihad? Islam sees violence as a means of propagating the Muslim faith. Islam divides the world into two camps: the dar al-Islam (House of Submission) and the dar al-harb (House of War). The former are those lands which have been brought into submission to Islam; the latter are those nations which have not yet been brought into submission. This is how Islam actually views the world!
By contrast, the conquest of Canaan represented God's just judgement upon those peoples. The purpose was not at all to get them to convert to Judaism! War was not being used as an instrument of propagating the Jewish faith. Moreover, the slaughter of the Canaanites represented an unusual historical circumstance, not a regular means of behavior.
The problem with Islam, then, is not that it has got the wrong moral theory; it's that it has got the wrong God. If the Muslim thinks that our moral duties are constituted by God's commands, then I agree with him. But Muslims and Christians differ radically over God's nature. Christians believe that God is all-loving, while Muslims believe that God loves only Muslims. Allah has no love for unbelievers and sinners. Therefore, they can be killed indiscriminately. Moreover, in Islam God's omnipotence trumps everything, even His own nature. He is therefore utterly arbitrary in His dealing with mankind. By contrast Christians hold that God's holy and loving nature determines what He commands.
The question, then, is not whose moral theory is correct, but which is the true God?
By Greta Christina, AlterNet
"Respected Theologian Defends Infanticide."
Why did this story not make headlines?
In a recent post [see above] on his Reasonable Faith site, famed Christian apologist and debater William Lane Craig published an explanation for why the genocide and infanticide ordered by God against the Canaanites in the Old Testament was morally defensible. For God, at any rate -- and for people following God's orders. Short version: When guilty people got killed, they deserved it because they were guilty and bad... and when innocent people got killed, even when innocent babies were killed, they went to Heaven, and it was all hunky dory in the end.
No, really.
Here are some choice excerpts:
God had morally sufficient reasons for His judgement upon Canaan, and Israel was merely the instrument of His justice, just as centuries later God would use the pagan nations of Assyria and Babylon to judge Israel.
Moreover, if we believe, as I do, that God's grace is extended to those who die in infancy or as small children, the death of these children was actually their salvation. We are so wedded to an earthly, naturalistic perspective that we forget that those who die are happy to quit this earth for heaven's incomparable joy. Therefore, God does these children no wrong in taking their lives.
So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgement. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life.
I want to make something very clear before I go on: William Lane Craig is not some drooling wingnut. He's not some extremist Fred Phelps type, ranting about how God's hateful vengeance is upon us for tolerating homosexuality. He's not some itinerant street preacher, railing on college campuses about premarital holding hands. He's an extensively educated, widely published, widely read theological scholar and debater. When believers accuse atheists of ignoring sophisticated modern theology, Craig is one of the people they're talking about.
And he said that as long as God gives the thumbs-up, it's okay to kill pretty much anybody. It's okay to kill bad people, because they're bad and they deserve it... and it's okay to kill good people, because they wind up in Heaven. As long as God gives the thumbs-up, it's okay to systematically wipe out entire races. As long as God gives the thumbs-up, it's okay to slaughter babies and children. Craig said -- not essentially, not as a paraphrase, but literally, in quotable words -- "the death of these children was actually their salvation."
So why did this story not make headlines? Why was there not an appalled outcry from the Christian world? Why didn't Christian leaders from all sects take to the pulpits to disavow Craig, and to express their utter repugnance with his views, and to explain in no uncertain terms that their religion does not, and will not, defend the extermination of races or the slaughter of children?
Because the things he said are not that unusual.
Because lots of people share his views.
Because these kinds of contortions are far too common in religious morality. Because all too often, religion twists even the most fundamental human morality into positions that, in any other circumstance, most people would see as repulsive, monstrous, and entirely indefensible.
Step One: Admit Your Mistakes
See, here's the thing. When faced with horrors in our past -- our personal history, or our human history -- non-believers don't have any need to defend them. When non-believers look at a human history full of genocide, infanticide, slavery, forced marriage, etc. etc. etc., we're entirely free to say, "Damn. That was terrible. That was some seriously screwed-up shit we did. We were wrong to do that. Let's not ever do that again."
But for people who believe in a holy book, it's not that simple. When faced with horrors in their religion's history -- horrors that their holy book defends, and even praises -- believers have to do one of two things. They have to either a) cherry-pick the bits they like and ignore the bits they don't; or b) come up with contorted rationalizations for why the most blatant, grotesque, black-and-white evil really isn't all that bad.
Now, progressive and moderate believers usually go the cherry-picking route. But that requires its own contortions. Once you acknowledge that your holy books really aren't that holy, once you admit that they have moral as well as factual errors, then you have to start asking why any of it is special, why any of it should be treated any differently from any other flawed books of history or philosophy. You have to start asking why -- since your religion's holy books are just as screwed-up as every other religion's -- your religion is still somehow the right one, and all other religions are mistaken. You have to start asking how you know which parts of your holy book are right and which parts are wrong -- and how you know that people who disagree with you, who've picked the exact opposite cherries from the ones you've picked, who feel their faith in their hearts exactly as much as you do, have somehow gotten it terribly wrong. You have to start asking how you know the things you know. And to do that, and still maintain religious faith, requires its own contorted thinking, its own denial of reality, its own sticking of one's fingers in one's ears and chanting, "I can't hear you! I can't hear you!"
And when you don't go the cherry-picking route? When you insist -- as Craig apparently does -- that your holy book is special and perfect, that the events and motivations in the text all took place exactly as described, and that the actions of God described in it are right and good by their very definition?
You put yourself in the position of defending the indefensible.
When your holy book says that God ordered his chosen people to slaughter an entire race, down to the babies and children -- and you insist that this book is special and perfect -- you put yourself in the position of defending genocide. You put yourself in the position of defending infanticide. You put yourself in the position of defending slavery, rape, forced marriage, ethnic hatred, the systematic subjugation of women, human sacrifice, and any number of moral grotesqueries that your holy book not only defends, but praises to the skies and offers as models of exemplary behavior.
And you can't cut the Gordian knot. You can't simply say, "This is wrong. This is vile and indefensible. This kind of behavior comes from a tribal morality that humanity has evolved beyond, and we should repudiate it without reservation."
Not without relinquishing your faith.
And if you refuse to relinquish your faith? If you cling to the assumption that your faith, by definition, is the highest good there is, and that by definition it trumps all other moral considerations?
Then you cut yourself off from your own moral compass.
I've made this point before, and I'm sure I'll make it again: Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends the conversation. It cuts off inquiry: not only factual inquiry, but moral inquiry. Because God's law trumps human law, people who think they're obeying God can easily get cut off from their own moral instincts. And these moral contortions don't always lie in the realm of theological game-playing. They can have real-world consequences: from genocide to infanticide, from honor killings to abandoned gay children, from burned witches to battered wives to blown-up buildings.
As just one example among so very many: Look at the Lafferty brothers, Mormon fundamentalists who murdered an innocent woman and her 15-month-old daughter because they thought God had commanded them to do it. At many points in theirjourney across the continent on their way to the killings, they questioned whether brutally slaughtering their brother's wife and her infant child was really the right thing to do. But they always came to the same answer: Yes. It was right. They thought God had commanded it -- and that settled the question. It ended the conversation. It stopped their moral query dead in its tracks.
But don't just look at sociopathic murderers from a bonkers religious cult. That's too easy. Look at Mr. Theological Scholar himself, William Lane Craig. In this piece, Craig says that the Canaanites were evil, and deserving of genocide, because (among other things) they practiced infanticide. The very crime that God ordered the Israelites to commit. I shit you not. Quote: "By the time of their destruction, Canaanite culture was, in fact, debauched and cruel, embracing such practices as ritual prostitutionand even child sacrifice." (Emphasis -- and dumbstruck bafflement -- mine.) And he says the infanticide of the Canaanite children was defensible and necessary because the Israelites needed to keep their tribal identity pure, and keep their God-given morality untainted by the Canaanite wickedness. Again, I shit you not. Again, quote: "By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable." As if an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good god couldn't come up with a better way to teach a lesson about assimilation to pagan idolatry than murdering children.
I could sit here all day and pick apart everything that's intellectually wrong with Craig's arguments. But it seems that a far more appropriate response would be, "Are you fucking kidding me? Do you hear what you're saying? Can you really not hear how grotesque, repulsive, flatly evil, totally batshit insane that sounds? Yeah, sure, if you start with your assumptions, then genocide and infanticide are morally defensible. Doesn't that tell you that there is something monstrously, ludicrously wrong with your assumptions?"
If I were trying to make up a more blatant example of ethical contortionism, of morality so twisted by its need to defend the indefensible that it has blinded itself to its own contradictions and grotesqueries, I couldn't have done a better job. Craig, like so many believers before him, has made my best arguments for me.
What's Sauce for the Creation Is Sauce for the Creator
Now. Some people might argue that the rules of morality aren't the same for God as they are for people. They might argue that, while it would certainly be wrong for people to kill babies and eradicate entire races on their own initiative, it's not wrong for God to do it. Craig himself makes that argument in this piece. Quote:
According to the version of divine command ethics which I've defended, our moral duties are constituted by the commands of a holy and loving God. Since God doesn't issue commands to Himself, He has no moral duties to fulfill. (emphasis mine) He is certainly not subject to the same moral obligations and prohibitions that we are. For example, I have no right to take an innocent life. For me to do so would be murder. But God has no such prohibition. He can give and take life as He chooses. We all recognize this when we accuse some authority who presumes to take life as "playing God." Human authorities arrogate to themselves rights which belong only to God. God is under no obligation whatsoever to extend my life for another second. If He wanted to strike me dead right now, that's His prerogative.
Yeah. See, here's the problem with that. If the moral rules for God are different from the moral rules for people? If the very definitions of good and evil are different for God than they are for us?
Then what does it even mean to say that God is good?
If you say that what "good" means for God is totally different from what "good" means for people -- if you say that murdering infants and systematically eradicating entire races is evil for people but good for God -- then you're pretty much saying that what it means for God to be "good," and what it means for us to be "good," are such radically different concepts that the one has virtually nothing to do with the other. You have rendered the entire concept of "good and evil" meaningless.
And I, for one, don't want the entire concept of good and evil to be rendered meaningless.
Of course, if you're a progressive/ moderate/ non-literalist believer, you're not stuck with defending every tenet of your holy book. You can say, "No, no, God didn't command these horrors. He couldn't have. The Bible is an inspired but flawed document, and it must be mistaken here when it says this command came from God. The Israelites wanted to slaughter the Canaanites, so they went ahead with it and told themselves the order came from God. But my God is good, and my God would never tell anyone to do any such a thing."
But then we're back to the cherry-picking problem: How do you know? How do you know which parts of your holy book are the ones that God meant? The Bible, and indeed most other religious texts, is loaded with instances of God commanding his followers to commit murder or worse. How do you know that God really wasn't giving those orders... but he really was giving the orders to love our neighbors and give to the poor? No two Christian sects agree on which bits of the Bible are God's true word and which bits are the "Just kidding" bits. And every sect has just as much "feeling in their heart" about their interpretation as you do.
So in order to pick those cherries, you have to twist yourself into just as many contortions as the fundies do.
Irony Meter Goes Off the Scale
It's funny. One of the most common pieces of bigotry aimed at atheism is that it doesn't provide any basis for morality. It's widely assumed that without religion -- without moral teachings from religious traditions, and without fear of eternal punishment and desire for eternal reward -- people would behave entirely selfishly, with no concern for others. And atheists are commonly accused of moral relativism: of thinking that there are no fundamental moral principles, and that all morality can be adapted to suit the needs of the moment.
But it isn't atheists who are saying, "Well, sure, genocide seems wrong... but under some circumstances, it actually makes a certain amount of sense." It isn't atheists who are saying, "Well, sure, infanticide seems wrong... but looked at in a certain light, it really isn't all that bad." It isn't atheists who are prioritizing an attachment to an ancient ideology over the clearest moral principles one can imagine: the principle that entire races ought not to be systematically exterminated, and the principle that children ought not to be slaughtered.
Human beings have intrinsic compassion. We have a sense of justice. We have feelings of revulsion and rage when we see others harmed. We have a desire to help create a livable world. We have a willingness to make personal sacrifices -- sometimes great sacrifices -- to help others in need. And contrary to what Craig and many other Christians think, these moral emotions don't derive from the Bible, and don't require belief in God. They're taught by virtually every religion and every society, and atheists feel them every bit as much as believers. Humans are a social species, and these emotions and principles evolved because they help members of a social species survive and reproduce. (Other social species seem to have some or all of these moral emotions as well.)
But our compassion and justice, our altruism and moral revulsion, can be twisted. They can be stunted. They can be denied, ignored, shoved to the back burner, rationalized away. They can be contorted to the point where we're saying that black is white, war is peace, and the most blatant evil is actually goodness if you squint your eyes just right. They can be contorted to the point where we're saying that genocide is okay because everyone gets what they deserve in the afterlife, and that infanticide is morally necessary to teach a lesson about the evils of murdering children.
And religion is Exhibit A in how this can happen.
New book on origins of Christianity details the outrageous suffering of children at the hands of ancient religious leaders
Forced into Faith: How Religion Abuses Children's Rights [book]
Is it ever OK to seriously harm your child in the name of religion? If so, which religion?
Mystic Brutality: Understanding Religion as Child Abuse
When Religion Becomes Child Abuse
Author challenges feminists to take on major religions that subjugate and abuse women and children
Does God Hate Women? A directory of divine misogyny [book review]
Christian tyrant Gothard and his patriarchal cult of fear that demands total subservience of women and children
The words of God do not justify cruelty to girls and women
Christian Patriarchy movement's subjugation of women and girls no different than Islamic fundamentalism
Christian belief in demon possession leads to physical, spiritual and psychological abuse of children
Christian Extremism: Witchcraft, Murder and Child Abuse
Rapid growth of evangelical Christianity in Africa responsible for torture and murder of thousands of kids denounced as witches
UNICEF report documents tens of thousands of children abused and murdered as witches in East Africa
Extremely abusive exorcisms of children branded as witches on the rise in the U.K.
The Nightmare of Christianity: How Religious Indoctrination Led to Murder


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- Disabled facilities
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- Linen provided
- Golf available (onsite or nearby)
- Cleaning service
- Dogs/pets accepted by arrangement
- WiFi or internet access
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- Single sex groups NOT accepted
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- High chairs available
- Cots available
- Real log/coal fires
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- Drying facilities
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10 acres of landscaped grounds Short tennis/badminton grass court Children welcome from any age.
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Please exit the M6 at junction 40 and take the A66 West to Keswick and Cockermouth. Continue for 30 miles to the roundabout and turn left towards Egremont on the A5086.
Travel along this road for a short distance until you come to the rumble strips; then turn left at the crossroads at the bottom of the dip, by Paddle School. Continue along this road as it bends sharp left: Southwaite Green is several hundred yards on the left.
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- Toilet suitable for wheelchair users
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- Good contrast between the floor and walls
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So I know - it's a chain - and a crappy chain at that - but we got Domino's the other day at work and I decided to take pics...so here you go.
The commercials keep touting their "new recipe" so I had been interested in trying it - especially when work is buying.
We got a variety of pizzas and crusts - thin, thick, regular - supreme, chicken, pepperoni.
This was the chicken bacon ranch on thin crust.
So - new recipe? Any better?
Nope - it sucked.
The chicken bacon ranch was probably the best of the bunch - but that's not saying much. The pizza is just completely bland no matter what the toppings are. The thick crust was the most disappointing as it wasn't really a thick crust - just slightly thicker than the regular.
So if you've seen the commercials and you're thinking about ordering - don't.
Why Should You Go? You shouldn't.


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Hand carved from teak root with stunning detail and in a highly sanded and bleached finish.
Each Carved Elephant Wall Art has a slightly different look depending on the teak root used and artist's inspiration.
Available in two sizes:
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*Please note this is a timber piece, as such a natural 'living' material. It will respond to temperature and humidity variations by expanding and contracting. Your items can experience movements and cracks as it adjusts - this is not a fault, but a natural occurrence within the fibres of a natural product.
As with any natural material, existing fluids and moisture can leech over time, which may cause stains on some surfaces. We do not recommend placing natural timber items directly onto carpets or rugs. If placing timber pieces onto carpets or rugs, the occurrence of a timber stain can be avoided by simply using a protective liner.
Many of our timber ranges are characterful woods with the appearance of naturally occurring knots. Variety of colours, grains and knots found in wood is simply the character of timber and not a defect. No one piece of timber is alike and customers' should expect a variance in tone, veins, grain pattern, leaching, cracking and knots.
None of the above is viewed as a fault; we embrace these changes as the natural characteristics and beauty of timber furniture.
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Over the festive period, all I did that was different from normal was eat a big dinner, snaffled up party food at highly inappropriate times of the day, nicked half of the chocolates I bought my husband (sorry Andy), and drank a bit more alcohol than normal. I still went out for my daily walk and did housework (although maybe not quite as much as usual!). I guzzle herbal tea by the gallon anyway and this Christmas was no different.
In short, I don't think I've been especially unhealthy but instead just took it easy, and chilled out. I don't believe I'm unique in that.
Us curvy women are more likely to put on weight than our slimmer sisters this is true. Even so, why then do we all feel so much guilt? Could it be connected with us being barracked and told we should feel awful, because if we don't – well, there's something wrong with us? An unholy torrent of emails from slimming companies started appearing in my inbox just before Christmas, and right on time on 1st January. They suggested diets aplenty:
Eat what you want…just fast for two days each week.
Eat what you want…just from certain food groups.
Eat what you want…only between 9am and 5pm.
Eat what you want…as long as it's eggs.
Our shakes are delicious – and you won't feel hungry, we promise!
I've had a leaflet through the door from not one, not two but three local slimming groups, and one from the local gym. That's quite an industry going on there.
It was my wedding anniversary this week so we went to celebrate in our favourite Italian restaurant, The Casa Italia on Stanley Street in Liverpool. We love it due to the food and atmosphere but because of the amazing sculpture of Eleanor Rigby (from The Beatles song) right across the road. Everyone says hello to Eleanor before they go in and tuck into their food with no self consciousness, but hey that's Italian food for you!
On Saturday I posted pictures of our dinners – and wine – on Twitter and Facebook. I had many tweets back, some telling me how 'jealous' people were because I was eating pasta in January. For a couple of minutes I felt like a big old greedy heifer, then I thought no – this is just silly. Eat your food, woman. It's delicious!
I'm not saying people shouldn't limit the amount of food they have if it's calorific or liable to put the pounds on, but should there be a sense of shame at a bit of pasta?
What got to me was that people felt guilty, about the thought of having a hearty meal. A mere two weeks after the last one.
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RaymondKuceli necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 156 diseños de 64 diseñadores freelance.
RESET Education
I am finally getting to create my ideal life using RESET Education as the vehicle. My goal for each and every client is to assist them to match their behaviours to meet their goals. RESET is an acronym for Real Estate Skill Enthusiasm Technique. However real estate is just the start we are moving into other business areas as well. My qualifications cover business and personal coaching.
We are looking to attract individuals in real estate who are looking for more out of their career and also leaders in the industry to assist their team. The fact is anyone who wants to get more out of life.
I am looking for a logo, my first impression was a finger pushing a button to reset your life. I like real images rather than animations and the logo will be initially used in all stationary, web and promotional material.
I like red yellow orange navy blue and simple lines. In saying that I am open to what is working today and will know it when I see it.
I require it in format for printing as well as web design I also need to ahve the exact colours so that we can reproduce exactly.
This is about reseting your life, taking steps to bring you into a better place using RESET Education as the tool to do this.
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Can anyone provide a changelog for X99M beta bios 1.95 released yesterday?
Im interested if there are any microcode changes...
hello guys as we are talking about beta bios have a very old rig and installed hd 5850 on it it has asrock conroe dvi/h on it i really need a bios update to recognize my hd 5850 thank you in advance
Can anyone provide a changelog for X99M beta bios 1.95 released yesterday?
Im interested if there are any microcode changes...
Is there a ASRock Z97 Extreme9 Beta?
I experience power-losses on high-load with dual-SLI while having OS on the M.2_1.
Actually I RMAed the PSU for a review, but i really dont think its faulty.
How does the PCIe-switches magic infront of the PEX8747 works?
While the 4790K only has 16 lanes, how can the the PEX be hooked 16x Gen3 and the M.2 be hooked 4x Gen3 the SAME TIME?
Can the power losses occur because of an UEFI-address violation triyng to map more than 16 lanes to the CPU for GPUs and M.2 or the GPU-subsystem halts because it cannot address all the 16 lanes the UEFI is reporting to be addressable?
Can you please provide a BETA-UEFI/BIOS with an option for me to tweak the PCIe-SLots for my SLI natively down to 8x Gen3? That way I would have the PEX with 8x for the SLI, the M.2 has 4x and 4x be free, avoiding confictls with the PCIe-switch dynamically switching them. to achieve 16x Gen3 what is OP...8x Gen3 would still be very fast for SLI.
At least i could check if this would NOT power-down unexpectedly during game-data-beeing read, while GPUs are at very high load..... or if it's the same issue.
This issue is open on the ASRock-forum, as well as on the GeForce-forum.
Ideas appreciated.
Next step on track when PSU re-arrives without them finding an error is to return the motherboard to the reseller.
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ASRock released new UEFIs for Z170 motherboards, all with "1.Update microcode to 0x76. 2.Remove Sky OC function." ...
Mind is not cumulative, but stupidity is.
BIOS is a kind of mini operating system. It's the first thing of code that runs on a pc after powering up. It initializes all hardware, making it all work together. But, it can handle hardware only, if it's known. That's why there are bios updates, to make new hardware being recognized. After all that, the real OS (Windows, Linux, etc.) is loaded by the bios.
Mind is not cumulative, but stupidity is.
How about a bios for the AM1H-ITX to support PCIe booting? More specifically, I have a SM951 in a M.2 to PCIe adapter and can't get the bios to see it...of course Windows (10) sees it. I've done a fresh UEFI install, but bios still doesn't see it :(
where is the specs for devices ?
Hi Everyone!
I plan to buy an Asrock Z170 board with a nonK CPU, can i still flash the OC Beta Bios that enables the BCLK OC for the nonK Skylake CPU? I will be able to OC like 6 months ago? (i have the BIOS file)
Thx for the Answer!
The EC/BIOS of my 990fx Extreme9 is broken.
Where I can download this?
Hi! Can anyone please upload the beta bios L2.15 of alivenf5-esata2+, I know that is an old motherboard but this beta bios works with Phenom II X4, it's impossible to find it. Thanks in advance for all your valuable help.
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The Holiday Resort season always comes as a bright spot as Fall comes to an end and winter sets in. We start dreaming about a fabulous getaway somewhere chic and HOT! This season for the holidays Botkier has introduced bright statement bags that will accessorize any trip and remind you that winter will eventually give way to warmer weather…
The above trio of EDEN satchels is the best example of color blocking anyone can dream of. Chic and structured with unique hardware and bright clever color combinations to make any outfit pop!
It's always great for us to see how the cool girls wear our bags. Above here is Natalie Suarez of Natalie Off Duty followed by our girl Aimee Song of Song of Style and Wendy Lam of Nitrolicious out and about in NYC. Their styles are all so different and they each make EDEN their own, a designers dream come true!
These images are from our inspiration board for Holiday Resort 2011. Photographed by Andrew Yee for a colorblocking story in How to Spend It Magazine. Color blocking is a huge theme this year and continues as a strong trend into 2012. Love the red jacket above!
The photo above is a huge inspiration for me, I have it tacked up in my office. It's from one of my favorite coffee table books – Hotel Il Pellicano, "Swimmers and Sailors", Robert Scio (photographer), published by Rizzoli New York. I want to go back in time when I look at it!
More inspiration: vintage chic resort style.Vogue Australia November 2011Fashion Gone Rogue Nicole Bentley (photographer) and Alina Baikova (model).
This is a photograph I took myself while on holiday in Portugal. It was so beautiful there, the brightest blues in all imaginable hues. You can literally feel the sun on the kids backs… The family vacation, moments that pass too quickly.
Speaking of, this is a very personal moment for me on a family vacation at the age of 4 with my aunt in Miami. Talk about on trend, my bathing suit back then was right on! Good memories live in bright color. xoxo Monica


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The Healthy Ageing Premium Pack is ideal for those looking to improve vitality and provide their body with optimal nutrition. Combining the latest advances in nutritional cleaning with nourishing meal replacements and scientifically advanced supplements, this Pack is designed to keep you feeling healthy and energised.
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IsaGenesis is designed to offer antioxidant support to aid the reduction of oxidative stress.
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"How brave are you, little Annemarie?" Uncle Henrik asks his ten-year-old niece. It is 1943, and to Annemarie Johansen, life in Copenhagen is a complicated mix of ordinary home and school life, food shortages, and the constant presence of Nazi soldiers. Bravery seems a vague virtue, one possessed by dragon-slaying knights in the bedtime stories she tells her younger sister, Kirsti. Too soon, she herself is called upon for courage.
As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, the Johansens take in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and pretend she is part of the family. Ellen and Annemarie must think quickly when three Nazi officers arrive late one night and question why Ellen is not blond, like her sisters.
Through Annemarie's eyes, we see the Danish Resistance as they manage to smuggle almost the entire Jewish population, nearly 7000 people, across the sea to Sweden. In this tale of an entire nation's heroism, Lois Lowry reminds us that there is pride and human decency in the world even during a time of terror and war.
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You may be wondering if there are there nutritional supplements that can help your vision. Below is some information regarding studies done to see if nutritional supplements can help prevent vision loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and cataracts.
Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
AMD is a disease that affects part of the back of the eye called the macula, the central part of the retina. This can cause the center part of your vision to become blurry or wavy. It could also cause a blind spot in the center of your vision.
A cataract is a clouding of the eye's lens, which blocks or changes the passage of light into the eye. The lens of the eye is located behind the pupil and the colored iris, and is normally transparent. The lens helps to focus images onto the retina - which transmits the images to the brain. Your vision may become blurry or dim because the cataract stops light from properly passing through to your retina.
Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) was a study to examine if the daily intake of certain vitamins and minerals could reduce the risk of cataract and AMD. In 2001, the National Eye Institute (NEI) released findings from AREDS. The initial AREDS findings found that pharmacological-level doses of zinc, vitamins C and E, and beta-carotene along with copper may help slow the progression of AMD only in people who were at high risk of developing advanced AMD – those with intermediate AMD in one or both eyes and those with advanced AMD in one eye but not the other. Unfortunately, these nutrients did not lower the risk of cataract development.
The National Eye Institute continued research on the use of nutritional supplements to preserve vision and the results of the follow-up study called AREDS2 were released by the NEI in 2013. This study was used to determine if the AREDS formulation could be improved by adding the antioxidants, lutein and zeaxanthin, or adding omega-3 fatty acids. Previous studies have shown that these antioxidants were associated with a lower risk of developing advanced AMD. The study looked to see if lutein and zeaxanthin are a safer and more effective alternative to beta-carotene since they are from the same family of nutrients as beta-carotene. AREDS2 also examined removing beta-carotene and lowering the dose of zinc to see if it affected the risk of advanced AMD. Beta-carotene has been associated with increased risk of lung cancer in smokers and the zinc level used in the first AREDS was considered by some nutritionists to be too high.
Download a free copy of the Nutrition Supplements and Vision Fact Sheet (pdf)
Original AREDS Formulation
Modifications in AREDS2
AREDS2 Results:
Lifelong good nutrition may lower the risk of some eye diseases. A diet rich in certain dark green vegetables may reduce the risk of AMD. You can also help your general eye health by avoiding smoking, staying active and controlling your blood pressure.Learn More
Pharmaceutical companies have developed supplements for vision health based on the results of AREDS and AREDS2. Caution is advised when considering taking supplements. The following points should be kept in mind:
Prevent Blindness recommends periodic dilated eye exams as the best way to ensure that your vision is healthy and to keep it that way. If you have AMD, or any vision problems, you should visit your eye doctor regularly according to a treatment plan that is appropriate for your condition.


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New Mexico Tax Records
This entry was originally written by Karen Stein Daniel, CG and Margaret Windham for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
The New Mexico State Records Center and Archives holds property tax records for the entire state beginning in the 1870s and continuing, in some cases, to approximately 1929. From 1884 to 1912, these records have been microfilmed and are also retained at the Special Collections Library. The remaining portion consists of original documents. A comprehensive list of tax record holdings, including some poll tax lists, for the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives may be accessed through the 'Online Archive of New Mexico' at http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm.
Individual counties have property tax books from 1913 to the present.
Internal Revenue Assessments Lists for the Territory of New Mexico (1862'70 and 1872'74) exist on one roll of National Archives microfilm M781, Record Group 58. This roll is retained at the Special Collections Library.


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The Hunger for Success: The Solution's Offseason
A round up of Contest Prep from last year:
This was an amazing experience because I learned a lot about my body, lets get to the crazy story before I actually got on stage.
Started the day with 2 meals of 4oz Filet and 10oz Sweet Potato with 3 TBSP of Almond Butter, i slowly started to fill out, and i was drinking more water than last prep, i had about 1/2-3/4 gallon all the way up until the stage and felt very good the entire time. Getting to the venue I got a touch up (3rd coat of Liquid Sun Rays) and my coloring was the best it has ever looked hands down. So i cannot complain about my coloring. The show moved slower than expected because the masters went first (35,40,50,60,70) Shelby Starnes made an appearance and competed and should take the 35's, John Meadows was RIPPED To shreds and should take the 40's but it will be close.
Last year I was very light on my food during the show i had a few rice cakes last year very scared of being spilled, this year Jason said be aggressive and that i did. From arriving on the scene at the venue. After the 2 Steak/SP + AB meals. I ended up going through 12 Rice Cakes with peanut Butter, I had 3 cupcakes before going on stage (mini gourmet cupcakes) and i was as vascular and full as I have ever been. I even put honey on the rice cakes to get some extra carbs in me because carbs suit me very well. I had a buddy there (MattyH) off the forums look at me every hour to see how i was doing. and it was clear i was coming in my best and slowly filling out. I never realized that i was selling myself short but wow it took a lot to fill me out because i was flat in the morning no question. I may have had too little the day before but i woke up at 154 this morning and was 152 the day before (friday morning).
Then the crazy thing happened. A guy in the 70's passed out on stage under the lights and the show was delayed 40 minutes. So after I got all pumped up, got my glaze on and hit those cupcakes right before the stage We had to wait for 40 minutes. Literally killing my glaze, kllling my pump, but it happens and life goes on.
Getting on stage. There was little movement, one guy moved the entire time we were up there for the mandatories. I hit my poses and hit them very well, but the judges did not lie. Palumbo had two guys placed 1 and 2 near the center and here are the pictures with me being on the far right.
All the judges had said to me the following:
- Hands down best color on stage
- Overall best leg size and symmetry with conditioning.
Knowing that I made those improvements and improved my coloring from last year was a major win, not to mention I came in 10 pounds heavier this year and looked leaner than i did last go around. I dont know where I am going to place, but a lot of people told me 3 and possibly 4th. Regardless I have made major improvements but its sad I really wanted to do better or hope to do better but lets see what happens. I have made improvements so i cannot hang my head, but i followed Jason's Plan to a T and had a little extra because i was backstage from 9 a.m. till 11:30 and had 12 rice cakes + PB + Honey + 3 cupcakes before going on stage (mini bite size ones) and got into my best shape, posed my best, and looked my best. Cannot complain.
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Night Show:
This went by way too fast. Arrived at the Venue at 5 p.m. because that is when the show started (which started off with Men's Physique) Between Pre-Judge and the night show I had a Steak/Potato meal at a local resturant and continued to snack on Rice Cakes + Almond Butter and I added a squirt of honey when hungry again had about 8 before I got on stage at 6:15 to perform my routine. The physique was done and over with in 30 minutes and all the routines/trophies. It was MOVING very fast. The second I got backstage they were flying through the routines and I had to rush through a pump up in 20 minutes and get ready to get glazed before getting in line and waiting to go on stage. While back stage I had the opportunity to run into John Meadows who ended up taking 2nd behind Shelby Starnes at the show (who made a special appearance) and ended up bringing his best package to date. I continued to guage myself in the mirror as I am a hard critique but i kept getting good remarks backstage about how i continued to fill out and kept looking better and better as the day has gone on. This was a stage shot took with a guy who i chilled with all day named Chris Bohonyi
This time there was no hold up's got up there and performed my routine (my buddy MattyH took the video from the crowd)
And some more pictures taken with my brother and mother.
I ended up taking 5/5 in my class and my thoughts were as follows:
"Bodybuilding is a very subjective Sport, regardless of your placing you just have to take the negatives and find positives. I did not place where I wanted to and came in at the bottom and took 5th in my class. Life happens and it will go on. I came in this year 10 pounds heavier, i came in leaner, I came in stronger, and looked the best I have ever been. My color was 100x better than last year, I was fuller, and i brought the best package i could possibly brought to the stage. I cannot hang my head I will just take what happened and use it as fuel to the future. This collegiate national stage has not seen the last of me. Get ready because I may be back next year to show how much I can improve this offseason to chisel my way up the ladder."2013 & 2014 RX Member of the Year
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26 Weeks of Contest Prep
Weight : 167 - 152
Start: 260 Protein - 275/255 Carbs - 55g Fat (Workout/Non)
End: 240 Protein - 200/170 Carbs - 40/45 Fat (Workout/Non)
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The New Plan
Back + Hamstring
Arms + Chest
After talking to john Meadows backstage and having him look me over he pointed out hamstrings from the back and overall chest thickness need to improve, and we talked about Mountain Dog Training for a bit. While he was getting ready for his pro-card and fell short he spent some time helping me out and setting this up out of his kindness. I am going to roll with this and start with lower volume Mountain-Dog Training for the start of my offseason and add as needed with an extra set. First and foremost I am going to ease into the intensity techniques to understand the program and read up on his site to understand what I am getting myself into
Protein - 240
Carbs - 245/215 (Workout/Non)
Fats - 40/45 (Workout/Non)
30 Minutes of daily LISS Cardio
* Cycle weak points - Chest Thickness / Ham's / Lower Back
* Work on Core Development
* Keep Bodyfat in check during offseason because it may be extended to move up a class due to being too tall for a LW
Nothing fancy here, its time to grow. I had my fair share of good food over the weekend and if i were to post pictures it would take up about 3 pages worth because of how many pictures i took, time to get back on the plan and reverse and it started today.
30 Reps over 3 sets with various grips
Lying Hamstring Curl:
40 x 15
50 x 12
65 x 10
80 x 8
90 x 8 ---> 80 x 8 --> 65 x 8 -> 50 x 10
DB Stiff Leg Deadlifts: (go till you cannot get 8)
2 Warm-Ups
80's x 8
90's x 8
100's x 8
110's x 8 (*PR*)
Leg Press: (3 Second on the eccentric)
2 Warm Ups
5 Plates/Side x 8 --> 4 Plates/Side x 8 --> 3 Plates/Side x 6 --> 2 Plates/Side x 10
2 Warm Ups
225 x 10 (2 Sets)
135 x 20
Seated Calf Raise:
2 Plates x 12 (3 Sets)
Cable Crunches:
50 x 15 (3 Sets)
Mocha Cake topped with a Peanut Butter and Jelly Protein Pudding/Sludge with Berries and Banana's
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alright ya know I'm in on this one man. SO are your macros now just for your starting weight and eventually bump them up as you go?
I'll be following along. Not for the food porn or anything, I swear
So did u design the sets/reps or did Meadows?
Good start to the log and the name really fits you... In for the ride and good luck with the rebound...
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Chest and Shoulders:
30 Reps over various sets + Grips
Dumbbell Twist Press: (See Video Below for explination)
3 Warm-Ups
55's x 10 (3 Sets)
Barbell Incline Bench:
135 x 10
155 x 8
165 x 8
175 x 8
185 x 7
Machine Fly:
100 x 20 (3 Sets)
Rear Delt Dumbell Raises:
15's x 20 (3 Sets)
Cable Front Raise:
40 x 12 (3 Sets)
Dumbbell Partial Lateral Raises:
20's x 30 (3 Sets)
** Never felt my chest or delts so engaged in training, I had a HUGE pump going at the end of this workout.
Good things I feel are coming!
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Looking forward to see you move up a class! Is your tentative plan to compete again next year or to take a season off to grow?
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I used those DB presses w/twist for the first time last week, I felt they really worked the muscle that much harder and make you develop more of a mmc


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