Why is everyone promoting tattoos?

[BlueLioness]

I mean, was I the only one who was taught when she was a child that tattoos are wrong? Am I the only one who had conservative parents? My parents absolutely hated them and thought they were wrong for some reason.

All I know is that growing up if I had even thought about getting a tattoo or my ears pierced I would be in so much trouble.

And now I feel like if I go out and do that I am betraying my family in some way. And I am very loyal to them.

And yet it seems like everyone on here thinks its OK or something. Like your parents were all liberals or democrats or something like that.

I sort of feel like I am standing out like a sore thumb.

 

[faroukfarouk]

I mean, was I the only one who was taught when she was a child that tattoos are wrong? Am I the only one who had conservative parents? My parents absolutely hated them and thought they were wrong for some reason.

And yet it seems like everyone on here thinks its OK or something. Like your parents were all liberals or democrats or something like that.

I sort of feel like I am standing out like a sore thumb.

Well it's not to do whether one is culturally conservative or liberal, etc. There can be liberal people without tattoos and conservative people with tattoos.

As far as promoting tattoos is concerned, I myself have not ever said that people 'should' get tattoos; it's an individual thing. Some people are strongly motivated to get them; others are strongly motivated not to get them.

I guess culture gradually changed, but it's also kind of subjective. Like stuff such as lipstick, earrings etc that maybe some Christians 70 - 80 years might have said they were 'against' for supposedly theological reasons, but nowadays preachers' wives and daughters would wear with no problem.

You're doing fine!

Blessings.

 

[Blue Wren]

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[faroukfarouk]

Everyone? I haven't seen that many posts about it. If you don't want to get a tattoo for whatever reason, don't get one. If you don't like threads about tattoos, don't read them. It's simple.

I think you've commented before on tattoos, but I don't remember whether you said you liked them, faith based ones or not.

 

[Blue Wren]

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[faroukfarouk]

I don't personally like most of them unless they are very small or there is special artistic skill. I don't care one way or the other if fellow Christians get tattoos.

There's a lot of bad tattoo art about! But some of the artwork is undeniably good, and a tattoo does not have to be big. Many Christians seem to find it effective in witness to have faith based ones, such as a Bible verse or ref., or a Christian fish sign <><, etc.

I guess none of your family has one, either?

It's not for everyone, anyway.

 

[faroukfarouk]

All I know is that growing up if I had even thought about getting a tattoo or my ears pierced I would be in so much trouble.

And now I feel like if I go out and do that I am betraying my family in some way. And I am very loyal to them.

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I guess tattoos and ear piercings are kind of separate. (Does no one in your family have pierced ears? )

If you as an adult don't want your ears pierced, don't pierce them. If you do want them, then as an adult it's you that gets to decide, I guess.

Seems like you don't want a tattoo - not even faith based - so it's simple: don't get one!

Blessings.

 

[Faithfulandtrue]

If it helps to know, I don't believe in tattoos because it says in the Bible that God doesn't like them, I think they are personally ugly(sorry I don't want to offend anyone just my opinion), and it just doesn't feel right to me for a Christian. Weither my family likes them or not I know God is closest to me and I don't get them because I know He has made me beautiful without them and He doesn't like them.

 

[faroukfarouk]

If it helps to know, I don't believe in tattoos because it says in the Bible that God doesn't like them, I think they are personally ugly(sorry I don't want to offend anyone just my opinion), and it just doesn't feel right to me for a Christian. Weither my family likes them or not I know God is closest to me and I don't get them because I know He has made me beautiful without them and He doesn't like them.

I can understand your point of view. Many Christians today, instead of fighting the medium, embrace it and use it to get faith based tattoos which are proven effective in witness conversations.

There is also the situation, for example, of maybe someone who has the name of her ex-bf tattooed, e.g., 'Bill', but does not want to be reminded of this, and instead gets the tattoo changed to say, e.g., 'Bible'.

Presumably this sort of situation is understandable, even if you don't like tattoos.

Blessings.

 

[country woman]

I don't care for tattoos

Here is what the bible says about this
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just click on it it works

 

[faroukfarouk]

I don't care for tattoos

Here is what the bible says about this
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just click on it it works

(Dead link...)

 

[country woman]

when I was a teen I thought of getting a tattoo but my parents said no
and I never had the desire to get on either

 

[faroukfarouk]

when I was a teen I thought of getting a tattoo but my parents said no
and I never had the desire to get on either

Would it have been a faith based tattoo?