Poll: Faith-based tattoo: Have you ever talked to someone with one?

[farouk]

Thanks, @Debp, for participating in the poll.

[Scott Free]

On 12/3/2024 at 3:04 PM, farouk said:

Had to stop just to say "always good to meet a fellow believer.

67% percent of USA citizens are Christian. A faith tattoo here is not very daring or impactful. Seems more about validation and fear of inadequacy. An expressing faith through works or personality development is more meaningful, being more apt to get my attention. Thou, If we were in India or China the immediate longing to share in our common suffering would be overwhelming.

[farouk]

On 12/5/2024 at 9:48 AM, Scott Free said:

A faith tattoo here is not very daring or impactful.

Hi @Scott Free Thanks for your various comments.

It's true like you strongly imply that getting tattooed — including among the most conservative of Christians — has been very much mainstreamed. These quotes from the Bible Belt would seem strongly to bear this out:

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..in the rural Bible Belt. Just about every person in three of the four sides of my family (bio parents, step parents) have multiple tattoos. Most of them are biblical (crosses between the shoulder blades are the most common ones) getting tattoos when your old enough is pretty much expected in the family.

source: reddit

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Around here (Bible Belt), it is common, especially among evangelical Christians, for the girls under about 40 to have religious tattoos. More do than don't, especially when you get to the under 30 crowd. I hardly know any female at church that is under 30 that does not have a tattoo.

forums dot thewelltrainedmind dot com

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Seeing as many earnest youth pastors and conservative church ladies would likely get inked up confidently and naturally at their local tattoo parlor, it's not unlike just getting ear piercings put in. So I guess from a witness tool perspective it's not so much about getting tattooed in itself as it is about make one's meaningful faith-based design impactful within one's individual testimony and persona that is projected.

( cc @Gracejj @Thewhitedove @NConly )

[Scott Free]

1 hour ago, farouk said:

very much mainstreamed

My thought always wonder to this verse in such matters, "But that doesn’t matter. Whether their motives are false or genuine, the message about Christ is being preached either way, so I rejoice. And I will continue to rejoice." Philippians 1:18

[Sower]

On 12/5/2024 at 4:05 AM, farouk said:

Some Christians really regret not having a faith-based tattoo.

Interesting. Would wonder where you get all your data. I personally only know a couple of christians in my life who had tattoos, and they were military tats. I know of not a single christian that has even talked about them, much less regretted not having one.
The only reason I reply instead of letting this thread die is I think it is fair that people know the other side of getting inked, and DATA says there are millions, 98.9 million to be exact, that regret having  gone under the needle.

Sharing the gospel by my walk/testimony, and the prompting and guidance of the holy spirit with prayer would be my choice when I desired to engage someone in conversation and I felt moved to share.  Because I'm still venerable to sin like everybody, I would fear I might disgrace God, like those speeding road rage drivers with "I love Jesus" on the bumper sticker on their car...

Thanks again, farouk

[farouk]

On 12/9/2024 at 3:27 AM, Sower said:

Interesting. Would wonder where you get all your data. I personally only know a couple of christians in my life who had tattoos, and they were military tats. I know of not a single christian that has even talked about them, much less regretted not having one.
The only reason I reply instead of letting this thread die is I think it is fair that people know the other side of getting inked, and DATA says there are millions, 98.9 million to be exact, that regret having  gone under the needle.

Sharing the gospel by my walk/testimony, and the prompting and guidance of the holy spirit with prayer would be my choice when I desired to engage someone in conversation and I felt moved to share.  Because I'm still venerable to sin like everybody, I would fear I might disgrace God, like those speeding road rage drivers with "I love Jesus" on the bumper sticker on their car...

Thanks again, farouk

Hi @Sower To your question, the source of that quote - looking it up - is fromhispresence dot com . Thanks.

(PS: I would add that I don't endorse some of the material on this source cited.)

Edited December 12, 2024 by farouk

[farouk]

On 11/21/2024 at 9:57 PM, nebula said:

He never mentioned if his tat led to any convos or not.

Hi @nebula I guess you've not talked to your brother lately - or if you have, it wasn't about his tattoo.

There's such a demand for tattoos now, I wonder if it would be something that could be sanctified to some ppl if more Christians trained as tattoo artists? (Do you think so?)

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Paula Castle took up tattooing after being made redundant from a sales job ..."I really did not want to do it. ...But I’m a bit of an all or nothing person so I said ‘yes’ and really pushed myself and I’ve not stopped...About 97% of my clients are female and that is universal across the board."

James McCarthy, Mirror dot co dot uk

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[farouk]

cc @kwikphilly Like I said to @nebula, maybe even tattoo artist work can be used for taking testimony opportunities?

[nebula]

7 hours ago, farouk said:

Hi @nebula I guess you've not talked to your brother lately - or if you have, it wasn't about his tattoo.

He died four years ago.

[missmuffet]

If someone had a gun to my head and told me I had to get a tattoo this is what I would get.