Posted on 01/19/2024 8:42:39 PM PST by Red Badger
A permanent reminder of a temporary feeling...
“Tattoos are definitely the mark of low class self-mutilation. Trashy.”
It’s ironic that the people who can least afford these things are the ones who are more likely to have them. Ditto for exotic black ‘dos.
Definitely trashy.
“So are earrings.”
Dad forbade earrings. I first wore earrings in my mid-20s. Mom wore them after Dad died.
“another taboo of my late mother was cremation.”
Right. I spoke to the funeral parlor yesterday to prepare for my mother’s imminent arrangements (short of a miraculous recovery). He said he assumed she would be cremated. “No!”
Ping
The history of most cosmetics is rather sordid
“The history of most cosmetics is rather sordid”
It is. (Dad also forbade makeup.)
That leaves us with the moral law, which did not disappear with the sacrifice of Jesus. The next question is to what extent the moral law carries into the church age. If you hold to a dispensational view of scripture, you believe that only if the aspects of the moral law were ratified in the Gospels and Epistles are they applicable to the church in the present age. For example, Jesus and Paul confirmed Old Testament teachings on matters such as theft, sexual morality, and honoring your parents. On the other hand, they did not confirm the aspects of the moral law such as keeping the Sabbath in the manner the Jews did. If the New Testament did not confirm such aspects the moral law as prohibition against tattoos or cremation, it may be considered not covered by the New Covenant.
While these aspects are not covered in the Epistles or the Gospels, the Apostle Paul did state that the body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, defacing the body with tattoos or piercings violates the concept of being such a temple. It also could be argued that cremation represents a violation of the concept of the body as a temple. However, all human bodies will decay as a matter of nature. Some argue that deliberate cremation is a denial of the bodily restoration of the deceased in Christ that will occur in the end times.
Every time I see a tattoo on a woman I wonder what drunken trip and circle of partiers did she have for that one.
Tattoo, I’d never get one but that’s just me. No what really grinds my gears are the EXTRA STRENGTH STUPID nose rings that young people are putting on their faces. Ugh.
In your mind they are.. it’s your opinion.
Theodore Roosevelt had one
Andrew Jackson had one
Churchill had one (So did his mother)
Thomas Edison had one
All low class?
I would use the word trashy, rather than low class. Wealth is no indicator of taste.
Still, people can do whatever they want with their money and to their bodies. I wouldn't get a tattoo. And I avoid women with visible ones. YMMV
profound
indeed, the only mark we should desire is to be sealed for His service
Or maybe it’s a personal choice. There are a ton of professional people with tattoos they place so no one notifies.
From a religious perspective it is my understanding is the faith that Christ fulfilled the law which “all have sinned” and was fulfilled for all believers in Christ this fulfilling all Old Testament law. Once the law is satisfied by “He who was without sin” there became “a new covenant”. The debate over tattoos and all laws of the Old Testament is irrelevant. The law is fulfilled to those who believe in Christ and accept him as his savior.
Art in any form is opinion, look at Hunters Biden’s art that sells for a half million.,.
Calling someone low class who has a tattoo or associate anyone with a tattoo as a criminal type etc shows stereotypical ignorance at the very least.
That was a small list of unexpected people with tattoos to prove a simple point.
Yes I’ve got tattoos but no one would know unless I was running around shirtless and I’m well beyond those days.
I con't care for rap "music" either.
Or spelling either, LOL!
Almost every cop I see these days, both male and female, are sporting a sleeve on one or both arms.
What’s that all about?
And the Old Testament also forbade eating pork and other meats - and a lot of other crap that isn’t forbidden under the New Covenant....
On the way home from the gym, I have to make a conscious effort not to stop on the way home to get a tatto
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