Poll: Tattoo artist: if a Christian daughter/son of yours worked as one, would you be supportive?
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Ronald Nolette
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Just voted. I voted don't know.
It would depend on the art they are willing to put on peoples bodies. I could not support demons and devils and upside down crrosses and alot of other worldly things that life evil and downgrade good.
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All the young ppl with Bible verses tattooed with whom I have spoken seem to have received them for witness tool purposes. I guess if they were asked what they thought of the tattoo artist profession they would likely view it positively, anyhow...........
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@Ronald Nolette Thanks for the 'like' just now.
As with the young ppl that I mentioned having talked with, on the specific aspect of whether certain ppl might regard the tattoo artist profession in a generally positive light or not, my guess would be that at a congregation as described by FHII in his post, the congregants there would likely tend to regard the profession in a basically positive way:
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As with the young ppl that I mentioned having talked with, on the specific aspect of whether certain ppl might regard the tattoo artist profession in a generally positive light or not, my guess would be that at a congregation as described by FHII in his post, the congregants there would likely tend to regard the profession in a basically positive way:
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@Ronald Nolette
Actually Rita has spoken about her sense of initial dilemma when her own sons reached 18 and wanted tattoos. She points out that her feelings then were not really related to her Christian convictions.
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@RLT63 There might be a generational aspect also; I saw this quote from the Bible Belt:
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You see what I mean about it possibly being generational?
@Mantis Tattoos can make ppl look like freaks, it's true, but not necessarily so.
I saw this quote:
juliannenw said:
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I don't think this person was setting out to look like a freak; in fact, she regards herself as traditional and well mannered. For her, the tattooing would likely have been more a personality expression of womanly confidence within an overall sense of traditional outlook and professional respect.
BeyondET
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Yes there is alot of tattoo parlors here, I also live by the world's largest navel base including the major port here.
@BeyondET Yes, tattoos were traditionally in the 20th century been the domain of male military personnel, and they still are, of course.
They have also spread greatly among military spouses:
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In fact now they no longer have an inherently male image, as UnrulyBeauty points out in her posting:
@BeyondET PS:
Actually, it seems to have gone full circle - after a while in the 20 century when sailors (and bikers) seemed almost to monopolize tattoos - because in the 19th century it was apparently regarded as a highly classy, rather lady-like thing to do; I saw this quote, FYI:
"Surprisingly, one of the major resurgences of interest in tattoos in Europe occurred among 19th century high society Victorian women (as well as men), after British explorers .. brought back the practice to Britain. .. grew during the 19th century, and even Winston Churchill’s mother had a tattoo .. on her wrist. Queen Victoria was also believed to have had a tattoo of a Bengal tiger.. . From Victorian Europe...to America. In 1897, (art critic, Margot) Miffin says that an estimated 75% of American society women were tattooed.."
(Black Fire: Women, Tattoos, and the Transformative Power of Body Art )
Seems also like today a lot of Christian women like to receive Bible verses tattoos, and those Christian women who would also like to do so but maybe still hesitate to have it done can at least from this perspective rest assured that there is strong, historically established precedent for it to be regarded as a rather lady-like thing to do. (The decades when male sailors in port cities such as yours seemed to dominate the practice appears to have obscured this historical precedent.)
Desire Of All Nations
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My answer to this is exactly what it would be if someone asked if i would be supportive if i had a homosexual child: an emphatic "no". It wouldn't matter to me if they were talented or even if they used "Christian-themed" art. The Bible says "no!" to all tattoos, and Jesus said that following Him means a person would have to risk being at odds with relatives, even if they professed Christianity.
Following God's will has to come before anything and everybody in this life, including my child and whatever they may want for themselves. Regardless of the cost that the stance my have on my relationship with the child, i will not make the same mistake Eli made when he prioritized his children over God.
If they didn't want to see or hear from me any more, that's just how it will have to be. A person has to realize that Satan will use any conceivable means to separate someone from God or convince them to make compromises, and he is far from being too proud to use someone's child to accomplish that task.
Following God's will has to come before anything and everybody in this life, including my child and whatever they may want for themselves. Regardless of the cost that the stance my have on my relationship with the child, i will not make the same mistake Eli made when he prioritized his children over God.
If they didn't want to see or hear from me any more, that's just how it will have to be. A person has to realize that Satan will use any conceivable means to separate someone from God or convince them to make compromises, and he is far from being too proud to use someone's child to accomplish that task.
@The Learner So are they medical ones, or what, maybe?
@Blue Dragonfly's FYI...so did you have the opportunity to consider the various poll response option in the poll, above? 
@RLT63 So did you see the variety of poll responses? and does it surprise you that views can be so varied?
(Thanks for your own poll vote...)
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