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Everyone and their grandmothers has them now and, they do not a thing for me, what can I say? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Give God the glory for what you do have and don't worry too much about others who seem to be more concerned with their own comfort and doing their own thing than in pleasing God.Folks should be different and have NO tattoos
Anyway, it's womanly now to do it; a lot of Christian women evidently do it confidently.
@Mayflower Yes, definitely. @shnarkle even commented: "One of the churches I go to has three quite elderly women, all widows, who recently went out and got themselves tattoos." It's evidently something that people - seemingly especially women - of all ages can do from a definitely different mindset because the inking is interpreted as an an enhancing acquisition, anyway. You yourself can speak with some authority on the vastly different comparison, also.
Oh okay! :) so you do admit that a discreet bit of tattooing has become fairly mainstream (even among not a few Christians, perhaps especially as a fairly benign womanly enhancement).
I agree that tattoos are a lot more mainstream. As for being completely benign to a person's health, that I can't say.
@Nancy Yes, it's become a sort of rite of passage for both genders now at 18 onwards. (The days when only men had them done are long gone.)
Yes, and while years ago a few ppl might have still thought that 'nice young ladies don't get tattoos', yet in fact today, speaking generally, it's exactly what many serious Christian students, preachers' daughters who are considering faith based designs and wanting to witness to their friends, homeschooling moms, etc., are likely to get. This is a fact.
@Sabertooth
I saw a video with a talk which claims that the quality of ink used in tattoos has changed a lot in recent years.
@Naomi25 Likewise, logically, the question of Christians working in tattoo parlors also arises...doesn't it?
@Ezra Hence also, logically, the matter of work in tattoo parlors could be approached via this passage, right?
@Waiting on him So do you think she has gotten more accustomed to the idea of your daughter in theory doing tattoos for a living? (I don't think @VictoryinJesus has posted on this thread yet...)
She’s not to crazy about the ink, she just wants to support the girl like me.
@Waiting on him I guess there is some measure of recognition that, just as receiving ink — of which many Christian women avail themselves — has become a very womanly thing to do (whereas it used to be very much a man thing, almost exclusively), so also now giving as well as receiving ink has logically, by way of extrapolation, become a profession and conscious series of acts which a woman can confidently do.
@Mayflower Don't you think that, while some tattoo designs are overtly faith based, others in their scheme of things can be used to help a wearer describe his or her life story, by way of testimony in some cases?
Um. I'm not exactly sure how to say this, and I most certainly don't wish to hurt your feelings; never that. But...honestly, I'm just not sure why you keep tagging me into this thread. I think I've said more on tattoos etc than I've ever really had thought on, ever, and I'm honestly not sure what else to say.
