While I was planning to write about how Obama is the worst President ever, or finally get back to writing my post about how "religion" was a God given element of our relationship with him, I've decided to write about something far more serious. Zombie apocalypse serious. You guessed it: Tattoos [prepare for ridiculous exaggeration].
I used to want a tattoo. I thought they were a healthy part of being an awesome guy. Not that I wanted to be part of the "cool crowd," but I wanted to know for myself that I was marked with awesomeness. Now, I've begun to see tattoos a bit differently. So, here are my current reasons why I wouldn't get a tattoo:
1) From far away most tattoos look like horrible birthmarks.
2) From close up most tattoos look like intentional horrible birthmarks.
3) I don't want any identifying marks if I ever have to flee half-naked from a crime scene.
4) People get weird diseases from tattoo parlors. Sure, most of them are pretty sterile these days, but I knew a guy who got a tattoo and a few days later he was a zombie! I tried to tell everyone, and I got responses like, "Carl's always been slack-jawed and glassy eyed," and, "Carl was biting everyone long before he got the tattoo." What?! This meant I had to take matters into my own hands. Luckily I had no identifying marks when I fled half-naked from the crime scene.
I won't go into any of the other stuff, like what the Church position on tattoos is (I think it's something like: They are permissible, but must be done for appropriate reasons... The human body is created by God, and is beautiful... You know, stuff like that). I think the reasons above should be good enough.
I would like to correct you and say that The Holy Bible says to not make any markings on your skin because it is a temple of God.
ReplyDeleteYou shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.(Liviticus 19:28)
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.(1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
I also know that tattoos are a doorway to the spiritual world and they attract demons.
I do know that the Bible says these things, and I don't mean to ignore that, I just felt like writing something silly. I tend to agree with you on maintaining the integrity of your body as God intended it, but I know that the teaching of the Catholic Church is not so entirely strict as to prohibit tattoos entirely. The reason and content of the tattoo has some bearing.
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