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Why Does the Bible Forbid Tattoos?...And have we been misinterpreting Leviticus?
JSTOR Daily ^ | January 2, 2021 | By: Livia Gershon

Posted on 01/19/2024 8:42:39 PM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 01/19/2024 8:42:39 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv; Hebrews 11:6; Ezekiel; jeremiah; little jeremiah; SJackson

To tattoo or not tattoo, that is the question.................


2 posted on 01/19/2024 8:43:51 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Tattoos are a really good idea.

They give the monkey-see/monkey-do crowd a means of self-identifying so normal people can avoid them.


3 posted on 01/19/2024 8:49:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Red Badger

Maybe the collective desire of more and more people to get tattoos is a subconscious mourning for the death of Western Civilization.


4 posted on 01/19/2024 8:51:11 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: Red Badger

I always took that verse to be referring to making marks by cutting yourself, not tattoos. I don’t like tattoos, but I never thought of them as forbidden.


5 posted on 01/19/2024 8:53:12 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: Red Badger

Tattoos are definitely the mark of low class self-mutilation. Trashy.


6 posted on 01/19/2024 8:53:18 PM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Seems more an embrace of the impending barbarianism.


7 posted on 01/19/2024 8:54:41 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Red Badger

nothing worse than seeing a pretty girl with a tattoo. Instant turn off.


8 posted on 01/19/2024 8:55:16 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tats used to be found only on military, bikers and criminals.

Now they are on teenagers...................


9 posted on 01/19/2024 8:55:18 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: imabadboy99

Tramp Stamp....................


10 posted on 01/19/2024 8:55:41 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

If God wanted us to be able to camouflage standing in front of a wall of graffiti, we would have been born that way.

IMO, if God commanded it for Israel, unless there is a specific reason, it’s probably a preference God has, that could logically be extended to everyone. The dietary kosher laws had a specific reason to separate Israel from other nations. Tattoos...don’t know.

But if our bodies are temples of God and God designed them, I think we need to think twice before permanently altering them. I hardly ever see a tattoo without thinking, that person would look better without that.

And then of course the effects of aging, dolphins turning into killer whales, unicorns with age spots, mermaids with wrinkles, etc.

All tattoos should be temporary so you can play find the tattoo more than once.


11 posted on 01/19/2024 8:57:04 PM PST by DannyTN
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I have always understood the tattoo in scripture to be a mark of enslavement.

Exodus Chapter 21 1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: 6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

12 posted on 01/19/2024 9:00:11 PM PST by knarf (I talk to much to be in jeapordy.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yep

I appreciate the crazy/unstable marking themselves for easy reference.

And no not every tattooed person is that, but appealling to common sense, I know it when I see it.


13 posted on 01/19/2024 9:09:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

To wit, the photo accompanying the story blurb above, is an example of crazy.


14 posted on 01/19/2024 9:10:23 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Red Badger

Ye shall not suffer to be marked as a slave, but rather as free men and women of God.


15 posted on 01/19/2024 9:13:40 PM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Jewbacca

Ping!......................


16 posted on 01/19/2024 9:15:06 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: BenLurkin

My tribe’s sneaker god Nikadidas can beat your tribe’s music god Autotoneloc.


17 posted on 01/19/2024 9:16:02 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: Red Badger

Perhaps tattoos are visible and indelible expressions of the profound impressions that idols have made on one’s heart.


18 posted on 01/19/2024 9:27:32 PM PST by Heartlander2
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To: Reno89519

That’s my reason for having a disgust of tattoos.

They generally belong to low class people of questionable values who cannot be trusted. Like criminals and scumwads.

That picture upthread is creepy.


19 posted on 01/19/2024 9:43:17 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Red Badger
Once I saw my friend's grandmother's concentration camp tattoo. It left an indelible mark upon my soul. I can't stand tattoos.
20 posted on 01/19/2024 9:43:27 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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