Thank you for this. Tattooes are simply insane. As mentioned above they are prohibited in the Bible. It is nothing more than defacing a human body with permanent graffiti. No. I don’t favor outlawing them. But I do remember back in the day, you only saw them on truckers and sailors. Now-—so many women have them. I really don’t get it. I don’t understand why people are going out of their way to make themselves look so unattractive. I don’t know how people expect to find decent jobs covered from head to toe with tattooes and body piercings. I see people in the supermarket paying with Food Stamps. They found the money to pay for their tattooes but they cannot find the money to pay for their food. A few months ago we went to water park. It seemed as though nearly 70 to 80% of the people there had tattooes. Getting a tattoo is not like getting a bad haircut. You are STUCK with it and removing them is no easy procedure. This is insane. I saw a report the other day that 90 million working age Americans are not currently employed. We are truly descending into hell.
Eating shellfish and wearing clothing of mixed fibers are also prohibited in the Bible.
“As mentioned above they are prohibited in the Bible.”
Not that the Torah doesn’t have value for all peoples, but techinically, only Jewish people are prohibited from tattoos.
The Laws of Noah (the portions of the Law applicable to non-Jewish peoples) don’t mention tattoos at all, unless they are part of a heathen practice (which they generally are, I agree).
I pinged ZC because he might be helpful in explaining what, if any, extension this law has on non-Jewish peoples.
Tatoos are ugly and trashy