@CharismaticLady It takes a lot of skill, indeed, to be really good, to exploit an artistic flair to do really good tattoos. It's profession that is opening up to women, which probably means a lot for increasing tattoo quality and skill now.
Faith-based tattoo: as a result of one, did you ever talk with someone? (Poll included)
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Yes, indeed, today brides (and of course their bridesmaids) face the collective decision of whether their tattoos are going to show. What with sleeveless dresses and so forth, right?
Seems like so many brides find it natural for any ink that they have to be seen, though it's not the focus.
@Waiting on him In many families it has been highly customary for sometimes generations of the menfolk to have had tattoos. Today the fact that women family members can have it done with confidence kind of establishes the custom even more deeply, for so many families. (Hence also so many Christians pleased to use the medium for faith based designs that work effectively in witness.)
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Clearly now also, less and less Christian young people today are likely to be shy about getting faith based designs tattooed - perhaps least of all the Christian young women; this seems an indisputable fact.
@Pearl Great cartoon that you posted, back a bit!
More seriously and recently, so does your daughter seem satisfied with her two new family memorable tattoos? (is she the new grandma?)
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@michaelvpardo Thanks for the vote! So what do you think of the very widespread custom of receiving a memorable family-related tattoo on the birth of a child or grandchild? (as explained recently here).
I think that if you need a tattoo to remember the birth of your kids, you have a worse memory problem than mine. Adopting the culture of the world is a bit like embracing the enemies of God, but there is freedom and liberty in Christ. It isn't my job to judge anyone, just to discern between what is good, what isn't good, and to choose the former over the latter. It's really not that complicated and we have the word of God to define the how, where, and why of conscience and godliness. If Christians don't believe the word, why do they consider themselves Christians?
@Waiting on him Well, apart from anything else it can be so memorable: personally, for family, and among friends and social circle (...which often includes church contacts in relation to whom any faith related design may seem relevant also).
Whatever anyone thinks - and there are all sorts of views - I can't see the sheer memorability of an inking - in all its varied aspects - going away in people's perceptions any time soon, bound up as it so often is in considerable artistic skill, whether simple or more complex.
The fact that it's no longer just a man thing as it mainly was in your grandfather's day is very much part of it, right?
@TLHKAJ PS: Musicians with your favorite sound - Bluegrass, Southern - are often or not unusually tattooed: kind of goes with the style, in a sense! It's anyway what so many ppl do now, anyway, (especially those known for their own certain styles), right?She's had it for over 2 years and he only realized it this past weekend. We kinda had a laugh about it.
@Naomi25 One senses sometimes that not a few tattoos also have materialized after a lot of prayer; 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 mind also; and I'm sure other conversations have arisen as a result of her evidently careful and probably prayerful dedication to the idea of using the tattoo parlor for this purpose.
(Although whether it's done or not is but a very small part of a young person's really pressing priorities, for which prayer is such a necessary resource...)
@Mayflower When there is a faith based element in the ink design, a tattoo can be a really useful testimony talking point for the wearer with a real wish to use it as such.
Yes I started a tattoo as a young teen and decided no. Needle and thread wrapped around it to hold ink
@soul man Oh so it was well back in your single days, then. (I don't suppose Mrs. soul man would have gotten inked either, if yours was that far back?)
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