Poll - Tattooing: from male military and biker ethos...to viable witness means for both genders?

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Tattooing: from past male military and biker ethos...to viable witness means for both genders?

  • Yes, I agree

    Votes: 6 42.9%
  • No, I disagree

    Votes: 4 28.6%
  • Not sure

    Votes: 5 35.7%
  • Rather not say

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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farouk

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Yes, I have never seen one that appealed to me no matter what its subject. It hurts me when I see a young person with still otherwise flawless skin who has defiled [as I see it] it in such a way. I know that people often do things they later regret. For those I have understanding, but that does not make the visible mark more palatable to me. I would guess that God has more mercy than me.
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@Lady Crosstalk makes sensible comments in post no. #439, above.
 

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FYI:
@Lady Crosstalk makes sensible comments in post no. #439, above.
I do understand and agree with the comments. Each of us in our flesh retain biases when we should not... except of course for any who have already overcome the world as Jesus overcame the world. How many overcomers have we known or do we now know?
 

farouk

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I do have a space on my other wrist !!!!!
Well, of course there is never any reason to rush into getting another one, not that you would do that.

But I guess having already 'bit the bullet', so to speak, having had it done already, it's not unusual for another one eventually to be acquired.

I saw a quote someplace which indicated just how extensively members of the caring/nursing professions decide to get tattooed.
 

farouk

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@Butterfly FYI, these quotes seem to show how members of the caring professions seem especially to feel compelled to undergo the procedure, sometimes repeatedly:

ErikadawnRN said:
..one of nursing school classmates.. was heavily tatooed and was also a tatoo artist prior to nursing school. In fact she tattooed alot of our classmates.. I had 2
grinnurse said:
I have 4. .. In the hospital that I work at you would be hard pressed to find employees without tattoos.. even.. significantly older nurses that .. have tattoos.
allnurses dot com

The increasing prevalence of ink certainly offers potential for faith related designs.
 

Lady Crosstalk

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Your hesitations and warnings about it are indeed timely; I guess the key is, what the motivation for undergoing the inking is; how it is designed to be used in witness, right?

Yes. :) I still think extensive tattooing is pretty ugly, though. Not a spiritual objection--merely an aesthetic one. LOL
 
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Yes. :) I still think extensive tattooing is pretty ugly, though. Not a spiritual objection--merely an aesthetic one. LOL
It can be over-done.

Given its prevalence among Christians (e.g., post #424, above), especially women, I guess the operative factor is as something to "use well" rather than as a "feel good" factor.

That is, doing it is something to "use well", rather than to "feel good". :)

(Though I suppose inevitably some Christians will also do it to "feel good", right?)
 

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It can be over-done.

Given its prevalence among Christians (e.g., post #424, above), especially women, I guess the operative factor is as something to "use well" rather than as a "feel good" factor.

That is, doing it is something to "use well", rather than to "feel good". :)

(Though I suppose inevitably some Christians will also do it to "feel good", right?)


I would be concerned about someone who was doing it to "feel good" because when does it stop? Some have described being "addicted" to getting tattoos (and their extensive tattooing give witness to it). I would be especially concerned about Christians who are caught up in getting one tattoo after another. Is it similar to "cutting" then? Because it is painful, one wonders about someone who would painfully deface their body in order to "feel good." l used to counsel a young Christian woman who described her "cutting" as making her "feel good". She had an extensive background of being abused during her childhood and when the tensions and depressions that resulted from those experiences would mount up in her mind, she would cut herself and claimed it made her "feel good" about herself. I wonder just how many women who describe themselves as being "addicted to inking" are in the same category.
 
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I would be concerned about someone who was doing it to "feel good" because when does it stop? Some have described being "addicted" to getting tattoos (and their extensive tattooing give witness to it). I would be especially concerned about Christians who are caught up in getting one tattoo after another. Is is similar to "cutting" then? Because it is painful, one wonders about someone who would painfully deface their body in order to "feel good." l used to counsel a young Christian woman who described her "cutting" as making her "feel good". She had an extensive background of being abused during her childhood and when the tensions and depressions that resulted from those experiences would mount up in her mind, she would cut herself and claimed it made her "feel good" about herself. I wonder just how many women who describe themselves as being "addicted to inking" are in the same category.
I agree; this is why I suggested that in inking as an experience the "use well" factor should definitely supersede any "feel good" factor. (I'm sure you agree, right?)
 
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PS: @Lady Crosstalk Your cautions are spot on. The sort of parental advice that young Christians — I guess, especially women, nowadays — should be getting at 18 onwards when the inking experience (sometimes faith based) so often looms is: 'You're a woman (man) now; be wary of "feel good" tattooing; instead, you should learn to "use well" the inking!'
 
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@Lady Crosstalk PS: Do you happen to have/ know any family or friends with faith based tattoos?

No family, but I have Christian friends who have them. They usually have their favorite Bible verse tattooed on a wrist--sometimes on the lower leg. Certainly not their whole arm, shoulder and neck or anything like that.
 
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farouk

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...I have Christian friends who have them. They usually have their favorite Bible verse tattooed on a wrist--sometimes on the lower leg.
Yes, wrist and ankle areas do seem to make for skin canvas to many Christians who decide to get their Bible references/phrases/verses tattooed, don't they? The young lady that my wife and I talked to with the whole of John 3.16 inked on her skin had it on her wrist area: for quite a long verse, it actually fitted rather well on a relatively small area.

More and more Christians seem to do it now, don't they?

A long way from the days when pretty well only men got tattooed; and it would have been sailors or bikers; it used to be so much a man thing (and still is, of course). Now it's very much a womanly thing to do. Often done with great care; and regularly - like with your friends - with conscientious selection of a communicable Scripture message.
 

farouk

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No, we don't talk much about tattoos but if I do get one it is going to look like this....
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Some of these - though nice looking - must be rather sore; do you think you could endure the soreness?