Only about 300 of those commandments can be practiced today noting that the Temple system is not currently in operation.
I consider myself Noachide, and so am beholden to the Seven Laws of Noah. Though a few years ago I searched out the 613 and found that I either followed or agreed in principle with 356 of them, which is roughly 3/5.
I fully appreciate your take on this however, knowing that the United States could never have been founded without Christianity.
Relative to the original subject of carvings and tattoos, I do subscribe fully to #253, which is Leviticus 19:28, and am glad to know that you personally seem so disposed as well.
May God Bless You and Yours....
Looked up the Seven Laws and I have no problem with them, though I will note they say nothing one way or the other about tattooing. :)
My apologies if I came across as overly confrontational. I’ve a long history of discussion with “Christians” who take their own cultural norms, look for justification for them somewhere in the Bible, however stretched, and then claim scriptural basis for them. While completely ignoring other laws that don’t flip their switch.
I’m not a fan of tattoos. I think they are in general unattractive. However, I don’t think they’re of themselves an evil practice and strongly suspect their prohibition in the Law was with regard to specific pagan practices of the time, as with with meat/milk prohibition.
May You Live Long and Prosper...