I have tattoos, I’m going to Hell?
I am not God. How would I know if you are going to Hell? I simply posted Biblical quotes as to why the Judeo-Christian ethic is anti-tattoo.
It draws back to the idea that your body is a temple and that self mutilation is a form of vandalism against the temple of God.
It also has a great deal to do with the worries of the early Jews reverting back into pagan customs. Tattooing was looked upon as a very pagan custom that was practiced heavily by non-Jews who where involved in all sorts of pagan idolatry. Often that paganism involved ritualized tattooing as well as ritualized human and child sacrifice.
Prior to the 1980’s it seemed that sailors and convicted felons where the only people that had tattoos. How it ever became mainstream is a mystery that I can not understand.
That being said, I could care less what most people do with their own body. I, however, would never get one. I don’t like the way they look.