Posted on 11/01/2013 8:21:51 AM PDT by DouglasKC
The Truth about Tattoos
I had written a hub earlier on 'The Dangers of Tattoos' - which was from purely a medical point of view. The present article is more comprehensive, and should enlighten the open-minded reader about the 'dark truths' behind tattoos.
Historical Aspect
History shows that tattoos have always been associated with paganism, shamanism, heathen (Baal worship), occult mysticism and demonism. The tattoo has never been associated with Christians, until the present decadent religious times. Wherever the Christian faith made its entrance, the tattoo made its exit.
Tattoos where associated with shamans or magic-men (witch-doctors). A shaman is an intermediary between the natural and the supernatural worlds, who is in direct contact with spirits who are invariably evil. Tattooing was often a magical rite, linked to scarification and blood-letting, and the tattooing process involved complex rituals and taboos, known only to the shaman and his tribe. In tattooing the skin is punctured and the blood is drawn. Licking the blood during tattoo operations is not unknown. The puncturing was considered the ‘opening of inlets for evil to enter’. Tattoos were therefore channels for demonic possession. Even today, certain tattoo artists burn incense and light candles during tattoo operations, while others allow ‘demons to guide the tattoo needle over the client’s body’.
Tattoos have always reflected a note of unabashed rebellion and marked deviancy. Hence tattoos were used to mark criminals, adulterers, traitors, deserters, the deviant and the outcast. Even the ancient Greeks and Romans did not tattoo themselves, but they branded slaves and criminals with tattoos. The Latin word for ‘tattoo’ is ‘stigma’ – which is a distinguishing mark cut into the flesh of a slave or a criminal, and was considered a mark of disgrace or reproach. By the early 1900s public opinion against tattoos was so strong that tattooed persons were considered freaks and found mostly in sideshows and circuses.
The Psychological Aspect
It has been observed that criminals, drug addicts, sex perverts and social outlaws are the overwhelming majority of the tattooed. Hard rock bands sport sick and lewd tattoos. Gangs encourage tattoos to instill a sense of ‘belonging’. Tattoos carry a streak of aggression and anti-establishmentarianism and are subversive of morality. Death (inclusive of skulls, snakes, demons, flames) and pornography (lewd pictures, nude figures) are popular themes of tattoos. Psychologists have considered tattoos to be marks of personality disorder which is manifested later in criminal behavior. Low self-esteem, lack of self-control, sadomasochism, bondage, fetishism, bisexuality, antisocial personality, mania and bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia – are reflected in self-inflicted multiple tattoos. Studies have linked tattoos to homosexuality, lesbianism and gross sexual perversion.
Tattooed youth are more likely to engage in sexual intercourse, take to alcohol and drugs, and exhibit violent behavior, and drop out of high school – by as much as 4 times compared to non-tattooed youth.
The Christian Aspect
Carnal Christians side-step the injuction in Leviticus 19;28 by arguing that the commandment is for Old Testament Israel and not for New Testament Christians. Does that mean that bestiality and child sacrifice which are forbidden in Leviticus are for Old Testament Israel and not for New Testament Christians? The New Testament does not have to spell out all sins. Smoking, for instance, is not mentioned in the Bible anywhere; but does it mean that smoking is not a vice or sin?
Reputed Bible scholars and commentators have made in clear that the moral commandments in Leviticus are for all time and not just for Israel in the Old Testament age. Leviticus 19:28 says, ‘You shall not make any cutting in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you. I am the LORD.’ On this Matthew Henry, Merrill Unger and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown have made it amply clear that tattoos are forbidden by God. It is to be noted that while ‘cuttings’ are qualified by the phrase ‘for the dead’, ‘marks’ (or tattoos) have no such qualification. Which means that all tattoos (Christian and otherwise) are evil in God’s eyes.
One of the arguments made by carnal Christians is that Lev 19.27 forbids haircuts. What Leviticus 19.27 is talking about is ‘rounding the corners of your head’ and ‘marring the corners of your beard’. These were heathen practices. One such practice was to cut the hair so that the head resembled a celestial globe. It is called a ‘tonsure’, a practice of heathens to honor their gods. The cutting of the flesh was demonstrated by the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. It is not to be forgotten that the demon-possessed man in Mark 5 was in the habit of cutting himself with stones. Cutting and masochistic self-flagellation is also practiced by Muslims during their festival of Muharram. In short, the injunctions in Lev 19:26-28 are a strong condemnation of heathen practices – witchcraft, astrology, cutting, tattooing, tonsures, etc.
In 1 Samuel 15:23 we are told that ‘rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft’. Tattoos sported by today’s youth have been the mark of rebellion and hatred of authority (besides, rejection of all moral values). In God’s eyes, the sin of tattooing is like witch-craft. We have already seen the origins of tattoos in witch-craft and shamanism. It remains to be researched whether this ‘witch-craft’ has also led to widespread demon-possession. No, tattoos are not ‘body decoration’; they have nothing to do with fashion and beauty; but rather they are sinister signs of moral decay and infiltration by evil spirits into modern society.
Read Ann Coulter's "Godless" again. People need moral ordinances, and since the classic sins have been declared virtues by the Left, they had to distract the masses by directing moral opprobrium against something else.
Years back my son did a science fair project with plants and red dye, it turned out pretty interesting.
The pansy watered with several drops of red food coloring added, the one watered with several drops of Rit fabric dye lived and it didn’t much discolor the flower petals (white) though the leaves became much darker.
Of the white carnations kept in the dyed water, the food color was taken up better than the fabric dye. I don’t recall the details all that well anymore, it has been a long time since then.
I’ve always wondered since his experiment about tattoo dye, when it is done in the extreme. I can’t say much, I love Sweet&Low and most all diet drinks—sugary drinks make my mouth feel yucky. I smoke and quit and smoke again...hahahaha talk about yuck mouth :p. This is unhealthy but I do it.
What a strange tattoo for such an non-warrior looking arm.
so you are saying that tattoos are “evil”? Just want to make sure I am understanding this correctly. And if tattoos are “evil” anyone who has on or two or a dozen is also “evil”? Please check me if I’m wrong in my understanding of what you are trying to convey.
*the one with food coloring died.
....I get so frustrated with me
It’s a modern, mechanized war.
Disgusting. Yes. Insanely disgusting. A few months ago we went to a reptile expo. I never saw so many people covered with tattooes—many on their faces and scalps. It was a freak show. I spent more time looking at people than I did the exotic reptiles. When I was growing, especially as teenagers, we did everything we could to make ourselves look attractive to the opposite sex. Now it seems as though everyone is in a rush to make himself look as disgusting as possible. It breaks my heart especially to see this vile graffiti on young women.
Maybe I’ll do that while it rains all weekend. It’s been a while.
Maybe the young women are trying to drive men away. It could be that your reaction of distaste is exactly what they want.
For me, too.
The modern stigma with smoking isn’t that it is immoral, but that it is so low class and stupid, something for the ignorant and those lacking self-control.
Today it is similar to being a sloppy fat person, people’s respect for a smoker drops a notch, especially when watching them having to go outside in the cold,and all the other adjustments they make to their life and the lives of people with them, that and the daily cost makes you realize how desperately addicted and hopeless they are.
The Old Testament is the Law, the New Testament is Grace.
I have stated my position, if you beleive tattoos are sinful, don’t get one.
As I have said people get tattoos for all sorts of reasons and I listed some.
We are not to judge a person’s heart, apparently you are assigning ‘sin’ to people with tattoos - that’s not your job.
Remember the 1990s? For a while it was considered hip and cool for young women to chomp on cigars. That, too, was a major turn off (at least for me).. I’m glad that fad ended and you don’t see it very much anymore. I can only hope that this tattoo craze is only a fad.
I see a lot of people also get tattoos but in a conservative vein and in that I mean, putting it on the lower leg, I’ve seen the IXOYE Christian fish symbol there, I think people’s universities, maybe interests like track. Lower leg area is often not seen at all. I don’t judge a person negatively on tattoos. Stereotypically, one could say yes, a lot of people with tattoos are in gangs or anti-establishment or whatever but certainly not all.
Everything goes away and comes around again. When the Global Economic Collapse hits, most people will have different priorities.
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.
Well, yes, you see it breaks the epidural and goes through the ink.
I do believe an epidural is delivered into or very near the spine as a nerve block during child birth, but I’m not a medical professional, although I have read of this specific medical concern.
I have had an epidural, the needle is 832 feet long (looks that way while in labor, probably about three inches long)
I have a tattoo and the needle length was about 1/8 of an inch.
A tattoo needle could not reach the spine.
Nobody I know respects a person less because they smoke so this generalization is therefore incorrect. If this is your personal opinion then you are, of course, entitled to it.
Since you dislike smoking I'm not sure why you have a problem with a smoker stepping outside to smoke, but okay.
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