Posted on 11/01/2013 8:21:51 AM PDT by DouglasKC
The Truth about Tattoos
I had written a hub earlier on 'The Dangers of Tattoos' - which was from purely a medical point of view. The present article is more comprehensive, and should enlighten the open-minded reader about the 'dark truths' behind tattoos.
Historical Aspect
History shows that tattoos have always been associated with paganism, shamanism, heathen (Baal worship), occult mysticism and demonism. The tattoo has never been associated with Christians, until the present decadent religious times. Wherever the Christian faith made its entrance, the tattoo made its exit.
Tattoos where associated with shamans or magic-men (witch-doctors). A shaman is an intermediary between the natural and the supernatural worlds, who is in direct contact with spirits who are invariably evil. Tattooing was often a magical rite, linked to scarification and blood-letting, and the tattooing process involved complex rituals and taboos, known only to the shaman and his tribe. In tattooing the skin is punctured and the blood is drawn. Licking the blood during tattoo operations is not unknown. The puncturing was considered the ‘opening of inlets for evil to enter’. Tattoos were therefore channels for demonic possession. Even today, certain tattoo artists burn incense and light candles during tattoo operations, while others allow ‘demons to guide the tattoo needle over the client’s body’.
Tattoos have always reflected a note of unabashed rebellion and marked deviancy. Hence tattoos were used to mark criminals, adulterers, traitors, deserters, the deviant and the outcast. Even the ancient Greeks and Romans did not tattoo themselves, but they branded slaves and criminals with tattoos. The Latin word for ‘tattoo’ is ‘stigma’ – which is a distinguishing mark cut into the flesh of a slave or a criminal, and was considered a mark of disgrace or reproach. By the early 1900s public opinion against tattoos was so strong that tattooed persons were considered freaks and found mostly in sideshows and circuses.
The Psychological Aspect
It has been observed that criminals, drug addicts, sex perverts and social outlaws are the overwhelming majority of the tattooed. Hard rock bands sport sick and lewd tattoos. Gangs encourage tattoos to instill a sense of ‘belonging’. Tattoos carry a streak of aggression and anti-establishmentarianism and are subversive of morality. Death (inclusive of skulls, snakes, demons, flames) and pornography (lewd pictures, nude figures) are popular themes of tattoos. Psychologists have considered tattoos to be marks of personality disorder which is manifested later in criminal behavior. Low self-esteem, lack of self-control, sadomasochism, bondage, fetishism, bisexuality, antisocial personality, mania and bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia – are reflected in self-inflicted multiple tattoos. Studies have linked tattoos to homosexuality, lesbianism and gross sexual perversion.
Tattooed youth are more likely to engage in sexual intercourse, take to alcohol and drugs, and exhibit violent behavior, and drop out of high school – by as much as 4 times compared to non-tattooed youth.
The Christian Aspect
Carnal Christians side-step the injuction in Leviticus 19;28 by arguing that the commandment is for Old Testament Israel and not for New Testament Christians. Does that mean that bestiality and child sacrifice which are forbidden in Leviticus are for Old Testament Israel and not for New Testament Christians? The New Testament does not have to spell out all sins. Smoking, for instance, is not mentioned in the Bible anywhere; but does it mean that smoking is not a vice or sin?
Reputed Bible scholars and commentators have made in clear that the moral commandments in Leviticus are for all time and not just for Israel in the Old Testament age. Leviticus 19:28 says, ‘You shall not make any cutting in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you. I am the LORD.’ On this Matthew Henry, Merrill Unger and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown have made it amply clear that tattoos are forbidden by God. It is to be noted that while ‘cuttings’ are qualified by the phrase ‘for the dead’, ‘marks’ (or tattoos) have no such qualification. Which means that all tattoos (Christian and otherwise) are evil in God’s eyes.
One of the arguments made by carnal Christians is that Lev 19.27 forbids haircuts. What Leviticus 19.27 is talking about is ‘rounding the corners of your head’ and ‘marring the corners of your beard’. These were heathen practices. One such practice was to cut the hair so that the head resembled a celestial globe. It is called a ‘tonsure’, a practice of heathens to honor their gods. The cutting of the flesh was demonstrated by the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. It is not to be forgotten that the demon-possessed man in Mark 5 was in the habit of cutting himself with stones. Cutting and masochistic self-flagellation is also practiced by Muslims during their festival of Muharram. In short, the injunctions in Lev 19:26-28 are a strong condemnation of heathen practices – witchcraft, astrology, cutting, tattooing, tonsures, etc.
In 1 Samuel 15:23 we are told that ‘rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft’. Tattoos sported by today’s youth have been the mark of rebellion and hatred of authority (besides, rejection of all moral values). In God’s eyes, the sin of tattooing is like witch-craft. We have already seen the origins of tattoos in witch-craft and shamanism. It remains to be researched whether this ‘witch-craft’ has also led to widespread demon-possession. No, tattoos are not ‘body decoration’; they have nothing to do with fashion and beauty; but rather they are sinister signs of moral decay and infiltration by evil spirits into modern society.
These morons just don't understand that you make better decisions about their lives than they ever will. You should should set up an exchange, or a website.
The worst tats I’ve ever seen were those by people who could not afford professional tats.
A needle and India ink, really awful stuff, mostly simple designs from back in the 1960s. Swastikas were popular even though many could not get them on properly, names of girlfriends long gone, and assorted horrible designs.
Then after a few years they begin to blur and look horrible.
On some people, the skin actually moves over the years. A scar on my dad’s back migrated over 50 years to his neck. Think how a good looking tattoo will look when it becomes blurred and distorted after many years.
Here’s my pitch idea for the next tract idea: Satanically tattooed Jesuits and the evil cast of Harry Potter play Dungeons and Dragons. It saves on paper, because you are covering in one tract what would normally take 4 or 5 tracts.
Freegards
That’s a good story, I heard another one about this guy from England who was once stopped by the cops, he was a passenger by the way, they asked for ID, he had none so he showed them one on his arm that read “Bill”.
If it's while they listen to heavy metal music I think we might really be on to something.
I`m sure somewhere there is a tatted person (or maybe even two, or three) of conservative tendencies who`s wondering right now if 6% voter turnout for registered Republicans (my district) wasn`t low enough for y`all the last presidential election.
5 years of hate. 6 months of begging. 6 months of blaming. Repeat.
LOL, no you don’t have it, but that hail Mary pass was to be expected.
You then proceed to make up more untruths for me, by pretending that I have addressed smokers, or support regulations.
None of my factual posting on smoking was directed at you personally or anyone else, it came up and facts are facts, don’t let yourself feel personally attacked, and don’t do it to me.
Go back to the post that I was responding to, post 56, it claimed that the stigma against smoking is because of morality, I was correcting that, that’s all.
Agreeing with the facts has nothing to do with being a smoker or non-smoker.
What in the world does post 151 have to do with the post you just made?
Which district is that, that only 6% of republicans voted in?
ONZ, where did I go wrong?!? You’re all redneck and not fit for the upscale areas of coastal Southern California!!!
(I could go on, but I just sputtered cookie crumbs on the keyboard. Sometimes I just kill myself ...)
“If it’s while they listen to heavy metal music I think we might really be on to something.”
Brilliant. I can’t believe I let that slip. It even works, as Alberto Rivera attested many times that Jesuits are huge fans of metal.
Freegards
*** I always thought it was a number from the death camps because his age was about right ***
***He defaulted to having his SSN tattooed on his arm. ***
SS number or military service number? The military replaced the military number and started using the social security number back around 1968.
I have short, spiky gray hair. There are plenty of Christians who say that is a sin, that God insists on long hair ... and don't you know, men find it so much more attractive ...
Well, phooey. I have ten kids, and I'm not going to waste a minute on my hair, and being attractive to men is lower on my priority list than alphabetizing the spice cabinet again. Some people are just going to seize on something, anything - hair, tattoos, weight, smoking - so they can consider others "not as good as me" and treat them like dirt.
If you (a general, rhetorical you) want to be like that, knock yourself out. Means nowt.
North Florida :(
Only 6% of republicans turned out in your, precinct? and it can be connected to tattoos and our attitudes about them?
Actually, I think his intention was to tell us how he DID know Southern California, and I didn't.
Put the same energy into telling the young that conservative values are the values of the cool rebels who kicked a monarch`s ass and made this country. Save the sermon on how the servicemen who died on Omaha Beach with a tattoo are all roasting in hell, for your freak club that believes it.
Conservatism is treading water and mindless hate is the rocks in it`s pockets.
She. I spent a good amount of time living there in the past 4 years. Except for the areas around Monterey I recall most people my age smoked and/or had tattoos everywhere I went on the West Coast. Possibly the same can’t be said of people over the age of 40, but I didn’t spend much time around older businessmen while I was living there.
Somehow I don’t think people going to Berkeley or Washington State are poor or uneducated.
FWIW, it seems like the celebrities I see in People magazine and the Daily Mail all smoke.
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