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


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

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

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5 hours ago, LastDaysJames said:

Let me add.... tats don't always have to be faith-based... I once saw a soldier with a tat of his babes foot on his shoulder.... I thought that was very cool.

Hi @LastDaysJames Thanks for your comment. (Did you see the poll, above, BTW?) I guess the idea behind the thread, anyway, was an emphasis on specifically faith-based ink. You mentioned a soldier; a military background often does inform a lot of visits into a parlor, often for ink up sessions for family-, faith- or patriotic-related designs.

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My wife has talked about this possibility .. a hard time deciding what to put permanently on her body. She has been urged by other military spouses to get one.

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5 hours ago, LastDaysJames said:

Here is my two sense worth on tats..... I don't judge anyone who has tats, good "faith-based" tat  can be a great conversation starter, witnessing tool, and may even get you in doors that more "conservative" Christians might not get it.

For myself, and my family - I don't want, only because as someone who feels called into the ministry, and living in an area were people are offended at tats; I do not want to be a stumbling block to people.... But that is me, my own personal conviction... I will not put my conviction on anyone else.

Thanks for this comment, @LastDaysJames Re. the ppl with conservative outlooks that you mention, I think you'll find also that at least in some areas going in and having ink done at a tattoo parlor is something that the most conservative of ppl will do quite widely:

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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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almost every young girl I know has some sort of tatoo.
Even those very conservative types.
christianityboard dot com
 

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I am a nurse in a cardiac ICU. I am also pretty heavily tattooed. I am a well educated, well rounded nurse, and was raised with strong morals and manners. .. I am an extremely traditional person.  ..a professional persona as well as a unique one while I'm not working

julieannenw allnurses dot com

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FHII said:

Probably 75% of the congregation have tattoos...  Myself, the Pastor, his daughter and grand daughter included. Now, even my wife

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Because tattoo parlor visits are indeed so widely established as a custom among even the most conservative of ppl, this is one likely reason why - exactly as you say  good "faith-based" tat  can be a great conversation starter, witnessing tool   so many Christians do in fact go in to get inked up (maybe just one time will do; maybe more than one time).


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Thanks to all who voted so far in the poll.

If you have not yet voted in the poll, please vote now.


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On 4/5/2025 at 3:33 AM, Scott Free said:

I see your point. Just leery of taking a person's avatar too seriously. I like to watch them react to others while under stress or see how they deal with people not liking them. Witnessing goes deeper than persuasive arguments, much less religious symbolism.   

Hi @Scott Free For a Bible verse tattoo the needles need to go deep enough into the dermis; but the Word itself needs to go deeper spiritually, as I think you imply...


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Hi @InChristsLight

I see you voted "No but I'd like to" in the poll.

My wife and I talked to a young lady with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed onto her wrist area; it was her favorite Bible verse and mine and as a talking point it worked.

FYI: this verse ref. at Isaiah 55.11 says in the passage:

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
 
 
 
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12 hours ago, LastDaysJames said:

For myself, and my family - I don't want, only because as someone who feels called into the ministry

Hi @LastDaysJames I guess different preachers and their families think in different ways, right?

FYI:

I think the pastor's wife has a faith tattoo.... quite a few in my church have faith based tattoos and my friend and I were talking about them....I've seen tattoos that have a lot of meaning like mine. I feel mine is special and thankful I got it.

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1 minute ago, farouk said:

Hi @LastDaysJames I guess different preachers and their families think in different ways, right?

FYI:

I think the pastor's wife has a faith tattoo.... quite a few in my church have faith based tattoos and my friend and I were talking about them....I've seen tattoos that have a lot of meaning like mine. I feel mine is special and thankful I got it.

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And I agree with you; that is why I said very clearly, that it is my personal conviction, and that I will NOT put my convictions onto anyone else!

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3 minutes ago, LastDaysJames said:

And I agree with you; that is why I said very clearly, that it is my personal conviction, and that I will NOT put my convictions onto anyone else!

@LastDaysJames

Of course, people are never going to agree totally, right?

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tattoos ... everyone and their grandmothers has them now .. what can I say? Pretty much every one I know, and that includes Christians and myself, have a tattoo ...
 
 

Someone else said:

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Tattoos are unlady-like. That is why I would never have one. cachalot

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Though the last comment, above, seems to stretch credibility....

 


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Just now, farouk said:

@LastDaysJames

Of course, people are never going to agree totally, right?

When it is something that is not clearly out-lined in the Bible as sin; then we go by the convictions of our own heart... I grew up taught that tats were sin - so I know there are people in my area including my dad that are offended by them.

For myself, I just don't want to be a stumbling block to those people!


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1 minute ago, LastDaysJames said:

When it is something that is not clearly out-lined in the Bible as sin; then we go by the convictions of our own heart... I grew up taught that tats were sin - so I know there are people in my area including my dad that are offended by them.

For myself, I just don't want to be a stumbling block to those people!

@LastDaysJames I see..............

Then of course there is the aspect that when ppl are against something it might actually be for reasons of culture rather than actually because there is something doctrinally wrong. We were thinking tonight about Peter in Acts 10 and 11, who was at first culturally resistant to the abrogation of certain dietary restrictions but also of the idea of the Gospel being open to Gentiles - but he understood that his  eralier resistance came more because of culturally ingrained tendencies rather than because it was a matter of truth and doctrine.

(I think these discussions are good.....)

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