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Related: About this forumPat Robertson Says Even Jesus Tattoos Are Only For Heathens
The Huffington Post | By Antonia Blumberg
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Posted: 06/25/2014 5:47 pm EDT Updated: 06/25/2014 5:59 pm EDT
Tattoos are unbiblical and only fit for heathens -- even if the ink portrays Jesus or other religious subjects, according to Pat Robertson.
During a Bring It On segment of The 700 Club, the televangelist responded to a viewer who said his friend was considering getting a tattoo of Jesus. "Does that make it okay?" the viewer asked.
It doesnt make it okay because its religious, believe me, Robertson responded. I mean, it could be a tattoo of some hoochie-cooch girl. It doesnt really make any difference.
The Bible outlines that people cannot "mark their bodies, and cut themselves like the heathen did, Robertson continues.
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merrily
(45,251 posts)Jesus hates tattoos? Who knew?
I think God wants Pat to set himself some priorities. Let's end war and hunger and, right after that, we can worry about tattoos.
What an arse.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)(Don't mind me. I recently got into posting cuss words."
pipoman
(16,038 posts)Just like there is a special place in Jewish cemeteries for heathens with body art....
cbayer
(146,218 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)Feel like googling it, I didn't think it was that far off anyway. ..
cbayer
(146,218 posts)to use it in the future, if OK with you.
A perfect description of Robertson, imo.
eShirl
(18,503 posts)as well as a few things from the New
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I mean, the book does say that. Does it reverse itself later?
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)Well, I do, but I don't believe that intelligent people are making the argument.
It also, I believe, highlights the double standard in this group. If an atheist says something about religion is ridiculous, we get scolded. But these kinds of threads are just fine.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)And gotten nothing but shit for it.
rug
(82,333 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)religious convictions. We should not begrudge them the same sort of hilarity we engage in all the time. Plus, who knows, they might even accidentally alert on themselves.
rug
(82,333 posts)as an offering to those gods.
Like most of Leviticus, the strictures were intended to keep the Israelites distinct as a sign of their Covenant.
It's not a matter of reversal; it's a matter of applicability.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Says dick-all about cutting the corpse.
New International Version
"'Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
New Living Translation
"Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the LORD.
English Standard Version
You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
'You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.
King James Bible
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am Yahweh."
International Standard Version
"You are not to make incisions in your flesh on account of the dead nor submit to cuts or tattoos. I am the LORD.
NET Bible
You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the LORD.
GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never slash your body to mourn the dead, and never get a tattoo. I am the LORD.
Jubilee Bible 2000
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you. I am the LORD.
King James 2000 Bible
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
American King James Version
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you: I am the LORD.
American Standard Version
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead, neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks: I am the Lord.
Darby Bible Translation
And cuttings for a dead person shall ye not make in your flesh, nor put any tattoo writing upon you: I am Jehovah.
English Revised Version
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
World English Bible
"'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
Young's Literal Translation
And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I am Jehovah.
rug
(82,333 posts)Oh wait, it must be because the Israelites were Bronze Age tribes wandering aimlessly waiting for a sadistic God to impose arbitrary rules on them so he could chortingly send them to hell for eternity.
Spend five minutes on any online Bible commentary. That will take less time than what you did produce.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Always has been, always will be.
Edit: And no, you're still wrong. It doesn't say anything about marking the corpse either. It's about marking your OWN body in memory of the dead.
rug
(82,333 posts)Edit: It's about not mimicking gentile practices.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)"Edit: And no, you're still wrong. It doesn't say anything about marking the corpse either. It's about marking your OWN body in memory of the dead."
rug
(82,333 posts)BTW, here's another school of thought.
http://usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19/
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I personally think that's a ridiculous interpretation. There is no limitation specified at all. And cutting and tattooing are in the same breath.
rug
(82,333 posts)okasha
(11,573 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 26, 2014, 05:41 PM - Edit history (1)
generally observe the prohibition. On a completely non-religious level, visible tattoos can limit job possibilities.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)by death camp branding tattoos performed by nazi fuckwits. Many secular Jews from the post war period find tattoos abhorrent.
okasha
(11,573 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)But there's nothing I can think of, that wields such power on my life that I want it permanently displayed on my flesh.
Interestingly my friend's daughter had a few friends with the names of their ex-boyfriends tattooed on them. Still do, I guess.
--imm
okasha
(11,573 posts)totally practical reason to avoid permanent "body art."
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)You don't think tattooing is a legitimate art form?