NO... I think you climbed out on a big FAT branch where many Christians sit in disgust of those with tattoos and piercings.
That is NOT me.
I think tattoos and piercings are ugly. I think that these things denigrate the beautiful bodies God gave us. But I do NOT sit in disgust of those who have them.
Tattoos and piercings and rebellion go hand in hand. Of course there's the push to normalize that behavior like so much else.
But please please do not mistake my disgust of tattoos for some disgust of those who have them. People have needs, and some wear their neediness on their skin.
Maybe relate this to something else . . . a drug addict . . . I hate the drug addiction . . . the effects of the drug . . . but I'd do whatever I could to help them to know something better.
One of my friends, I haven't seen him for a couple of years now, he's one of these fellows, tattoos over most his body, including a devil head covering one side of his neck up onto his face, lots of piercings, rings, spikes, stuff like that. I met him when he was in the hospital because he had pushed large sewing needles into his leg, and then moved in such a way that they were all pulled in, and he couldn't get them out.
He is just like me. That was his way of acting out to compensate for depression, I had my own ways. But now we just live with our depression instead of "energizing" through self-destructive behavior.
I love my friend, and I hate the tattoos, and I hate the needles, and I hate all the things people do to themselves, I hate what I do, all the disgusting garbage that people do trying to make themselves feel better, and instead, well, I guess I'm on my own rant now.
Motivations are tricky things and many people are really good at fooling themselves. I don't think this stuff is good, or innocent, I think it's fleshy, and I don't believe in glorifying it.
But because I hate the act, this doesn't mean I hate the person.
Much love!