I feel like an increasing amount of young people are getting tattoos due to trends from instagram and pinterest in the pursuit of staying cool. This concerns me because I HATE the look of tattoos. For me tattoos look degenerate, tacky, and express mental illness/criminality. I know there are good people with tattoos but for me tattoos will always remain a sign of someone sleezy or a criminal just like how the Japanese view it.
Unfortunately, even many women today are getting stupid tattoos like cursive writing or small objects on their wrist. I'm concerned with potential marriage material because I don't think I could ever marry a girl who has a permanent sin on her body, even if it can be forgiven by God. This trend even affects our churches, with many men sporting tattoos and claiming that "the one commandment from the old testament is misunderstood by modern translators so it doesn't apply to us" or "we live by grace not law, the old testament no longer applies".
So what do you guys think? Am i a massive prude who needs to get with the times or am i right that tattoos are tacky and degenerate (which speaks of the character of those who get them)?
It's funny when they dismiss forbidding tattoos as "ancient misunderstood tradition" when the reason why God forbade the Israelites from putting on tattoos is because that was a very common practice amongst the pagan worshippers of their times. Remind them of the Bible passage (in the NT) where it says we are to imitate light and not dark, but then what do you expect from people who can't read the Bible and say such foolish sayings?
Cooper Thompson
I hate them too; "you were bought at a price, therefore honour God with your bodies." -St. Paul
You aren't alone OP, I hate tattoos on everyone. But I am this way to any body modifications besides simple earrings. I've given up on the idea of having a wife at all
As long as the person isn't doing it for his own vanity, I don't think tattoos as bad.
Gavin Adams
If you can afford to get a tattoo, you can afford to get that tattoo removed. I instantly lose all respect for anyone I find out has a tattoo of anything anywhere. Absolutely disgusting practice and a huge red flag.
Levi Collins
transhumanism = satanic, and the precursors of it are here. the precursors being a tattoo agenda and a transgender acceptance agenda, which are here to normalize human alteration.
Hunter Powell
Its both
Andrew Stewart
The verse immediately before says don't cut the hair on the side of your head, so I hope you've got big curly sideburns like orthodox jews do.
Landon Mitchell
I hate it as well, but it has become a way of people to try and belong to a group. Ever notice how small country town people seldom get tattoos? They identify with their town and feel connected to the people who live there.
It really is a sad thing when you think about it. These are people who feel like they don't belong
Hudson Hughes
Tattoos aren't a sin. They're just retarded.
Kevin Peterson
It's a good thing Christ died for nothing so you'd still have to practice the mosaic law there eh chaim?
Time for a hard think shekelstien,
Nathan Martin
Tattoos are clear symptoms of a personality with deviations morals of behavior and concern with immediacy. It is certainly a person with a narrow world view who does not think about the consequences of her actions, concerned only with asserting her personality in the based on a few scribbles on the body. She does not think oe ridiculous will a tattoo get at my age, for example. A person old woman tattooed. Is there anything more ridiculous? They are certainly futile motives that lead a person to assault his own body with ridiculous gibberish. AND the person will feel more futile still stating his or her tattoo.
The tattoos, moreover, usually always adorn the bodies of fringe and bandits. Tattooing is undoubtedly associated with marginality and desire for self-affirmation through mediocrity. Some great intellectual tattooed? Of course not. They have more noble concerns, more spiritual, higher, and not as low concerns as exposing parts of the body graffiti with ridiculous symbols, which only reveal symptoms of character defect.
Tattoo, thus, is synonymous with futility and symptom of not very intelligent person
The bearer of such a deleterious remnant is certainly not someone with a high moral frame of ethics intact, good inclinations and sound familiar pundonor.Oras, who subjulgar to a marginal trait, in such a frivolous, thoughtless, animalistic way, mambembe, and unbalanced, it is not someone built, edified and modeled on superior values of honor, nobility of character, virtues and virtues well-arranged, aligned and sliding, so it does not make up a model unprovable to read and tread life, and thus evade the profile sustaining a salutary home, nucleated pro nobility of dignity, uniqueness and decency. Who reduces to the atrocity of a decharacterization personal by fashionable vain, so bestial, so inglorious and so fruitless like these, is someone of very dangerous danger to society, since the reflected is as nefarious and dismal as possible, only degenerates and ruins. All tattooed people are bovine, idiot and dispersed.
Carson Rogers
Vanity is the only reason to get a tattoo regardless of what you tell yourself unless you're some pagan tribal from Africa or South America.
Luis Nguyen
Lots of the women at the orthodox church I was looking at have nose rings and arm tats. I don't like it.
Also I like the idea of a tatoos on a man in theory but when ever I see any body around here with a tatoo it's like a tatoo of a picture of a fish or like squirrel or something super retarded that looks awful.
Isaac Hall
What about extremely small tattoos for the sake of aesthetic that represent a good quality? Let's say, a small cross or a symbol of Christianity
Nathaniel Ross
Totally agree. It doesn't bother me if the ink was done before they came to God, because then those tattoos are like scars of a dead past. When practicing Christians get tattoos, I'm completely and totally disgusted.
I like Dave Mustaine's answer as to why he has no tattoos when I'm dealing with idolatrous heathens: "You don't put a bumper sticker on a Mercedes-Benz." (preferably while flexing). It's not the godly answer, but it does answer the fools according to their own folly, lest they be wise in their own eyes.
Nicholas Miller
Same as using a cross as some sort of jewelry. These tattoos (like all tattoos in general) are absolutely unnecessary.
James Rogers
Tattoos are about replacing God's image and Logos with one chosen by us. It's a microsymptom of satanism in our society.
Caleb Rogers
Considering they can get removed, that past isn't really dead.
The human body was made in God's image and likeness and to deface it is to insult God. It is also a red flag because it means that the tattooed individual is willing to waste their hard-earned money on permanent alterations to their body without considering the long-term consequences. It is also a sign of insecurity and attention-seeking behavior because they believe they are not interesting without tattoos.
Brandon King
Let us know how that works out for you.
PROTIP: If you don't like 'em, don't marry someone who has 'em. But don't tell me what to do or belittle my choice.
Owen Jackson
Leviticus 19:28
Remember, Jesus came to fullfill the law, not to abolish it.
Evan Cruz
Liberal-tier reasoning. 99% of the people who have tattoos get them out of sheer vanity.
Zachary King
No, no I do not notice this. I live out in the sticks and most people around me here still have tattoos. The nearest big town has two tattoo parlors.
Chase Williams
Coptic tattoos look extremely cool. And I do think that well-made Christian tattoos are a good thing. As long as the tattoo is religious in nature and not pagan shit, how can it be a bad thing? Reminds me of the woman who used expensive oils on Jesus's feet.
(inb4 evangelicals start posting their OT quotes)
Nolan Gray
They were often gotten by sailors in ye ancient times in case they were washed overboard, it let the deceased communicate with those who found the body.
Jayden Davis
tattoos are forgiveable, but I'm not a fan, excluding cross tattoos. God gave you this beautiful body, and you're gonna graffiti worldy bullshit all over it?
Nolan Wood
I'm fortunate that none of mine are satanic/pagan (save a 666 I covered up with a yin/yang Apple, but I can live with that)
I've been conflicted about getting anymore. I have one arm that's kind of full, and another that has lots of empty space that I feel sort of off balance with and would probably look better with one or two more.
With that said tattoos on men work and age better than tattoos on women. And tattoos done at Traditional Shops (Sailor Jerry type stuff) look far better than bullshit cursive.
Evan Nelson
I don't think tatoos are sins in and of themselves, however I also hate them.
I think I'll found a covenant society and demand as part of the covenant that there will be no tattooing. And if at all possible get the state to ban them.
Julian Reyes
Oh look; another self-righteous, sanctimonious thread.
I know a nun who needed to have a tattoo removed before she could fully join her convent or whatever they call it. It wasn't 100% removed, but she keeps it covered and they have no problems with it.
Of course, some people would say it's a good way to show thy sin…
Even today some soldiers will get their name or other identifying information tattooed on their torso, as it is the part of the body that is the mostly likely to be intact and found should they die in a bomb attack.
