More Christian tattoo artists a positive development?

[farouk]

Tthe title asks of Christian artists, providing the services.

I'm guessing also that where exactly each individual artist would draw the personal line - so to speak - would differ a bit.

 

[Sabertooth]

I'm guessing also that where exactly each individual artist would draw the personal line - so to speak - would differ a bit.

They would only be answerable to their own conscience, which the Holy Spirit would tweak as time goes on (if they are walking in Him), but I expect that to be convergent on Jesus, per 1 John 3:2.

 

[farouk]

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[farouk]

They would only be answerable to their own conscience, which the Holy Spirit would tweak as time goes on (if they are walking in Him), but I expect that to be convergent on Jesus, per 1 John 3:2.

I guess Romans 14 Christian liberty would have a lot to do with it.

 

[Sabertooth]

I guess Romans 14 Christian liberty would have a lot to do with it.

I was thinking more along the lines of 1 Corinthians 10:23,

"All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify."

 

[farouk]

I was thinking more along the lines of 1 Corinthians 10:23,

"All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify."

I'm sure both the 1 Corinthians and Romans passages are generally relevant!

 

[farouk]

...the title asks of Christian artists, providing the services.

I guess your main problem would be with possible implications for people working in parlors, rather than with being users of parlors, as clients?

These days, daughters as well as sons will often tend to want to use parlors, as clients.

 

[Sabertooth]

I guess your main problem would be with possible implications for people working in parlors, rather than with being users of parlors, as clients?

Yes.

 

[farouk]

"All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify."

I reckon that a lot of 18 year old - or thereabouts - Christian young men and women have weighed up this kind of verse to figure the witness value of a faith based tattoo. (I guess this is getting off the main thrust of the topic of the thread, which is more working in than using parlors, though.)

 

[farouk]

I know loads of people that like what they had done, many are now in their 40--60's age ranges, me included.

@Butterfly FYI, in relation to your recent post, I saw this report in Huffington Post:

' "...Most of my clients are in the older bracket," Gallo-Kohlas told The Huffington Post. "We see a lot of women in their sixties and seventies getting their first tattoos." Gallo-Kohlas recalls a woman in her sixties who got a tattoo because everyone in the golf clique at her gated community had one. It seemed like the thing to do in order to fit in.'
Many Women Get Tattoos Post 50 ? And Don't Regret It Later huffington post

 

[Sabertooth]

I guess this is getting off the main thrust of the topic of the thread, which is more working in than using parlors, though.

I intended it to be applied to the workers.

 

[farouk]

I intended it to be applied to the workers.

I'm sure it can apply both ways, really, anyway.

 

[farouk]

Yes.

@Sabertooth Do you find it more problematic for women either to work as artists in parlors or to receive ink, than for men to do either?

(I phrased the poll options carefully.)

 

[Sabertooth]

Do you find it more problematic for women either to work as artists in parlors or to receive ink, than for men to do either?

I can't see why it would be (but I'm mildly autistic, so I am pretty blind to social nuances...).

 

[aspen]

@aspen I guess a tattoo sleeve should preferably be gotten for the design itself, rather than passively to fill space, right...?

I am sure it can, but many seem to be randomn

 

[farouk]

I can't see why it would be (but I'm mildly autistic, so I am pretty blind to social nuances...).

@Sabertooth It stated someplace that 59% - 70% or more of parlor clients in North America are female. (To think that it once used to be a man thing almost exclusively...)

 

[farouk]

I was thinking more along the lines of 1 Corinthians 10:23,

"All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify."

I guess that some Christians do find that faith based tattoo designs - Bible ref.s or texts; Christian fish sign <>< on a wrist, etc. - do actually work effectively as conversation-starters in witness.

 

[Sabertooth]

I guess that some Christians do find that faith based tattoo designs - Bible ref.s or texts; Christian fish sign <>< on a wrist, etc. - do actually work effectively as conversation-starters in witness.

I'm not really challenging that.

 

[farouk]

I'm not really challenging that.

I guess the point is really a highly pragmatic one, right? leaving aside, likes/dislikes, they really are proven to work.

My wife and I talked to a young lady with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on her wrist area; it was her favorite Bible verse, and mine also; and I'm sure that other conversations have arisen as a result of her willingness to undergo the ink injectings in that design.

 

[Sabertooth]

I'm sure that other conversations have arisen as a result of her willingness to undergo the ink injectings in that design.

I don't really have a spiritual problem with tattoos as an art form (or other arts, for that matter*) just the compromise that artists might have to accept in order to stay working. Benign content isn't a problem. Dark content is. (Some of my favorite CCM musicians have recorded jingles to hawk underwear, bar soap, etc.)

And, in my evolution as an [amateur] artist, I've seen how the enemy can subtly deceive us into promoting his kingdom (until the Holy Spirit brings me to the next level). The Holy Spirit has never condemned me in that process. He just throws a spotlight on the part that's off and it's usually all that I need.

*Some of my pieces get criticized for being form-fitting, especially with female figures.