More Christian tattoo artists a positive development?

[VictoryinJesus]

@VictoryinJesus Thanks for your 'likes'; as you will also see, there is quite a choice in the possible poll responses, above.

Yes, was just looking at the poll and unsure. Really don’t have an answer. How can I vote on someone else’s life choice as God only knows what is good for them. I was writer. Plenty of people write novels. And it works for them. For me...it didn’t work and God brought me to a place of walking away from the novels. Greed was involved. Lust for money and fame and acceptance in the wrong form. It cultivated all the wrong things in my heart. Same with your poll ...it would depend on if it cultivated the wrong things as with any job or passion.

 

[Sabertooth]

It's a profession which is finally opening up to women also in larger numbers.

My skepticism is not woman-specific. In the past, men were wrong (and hypocritical), on the one hand, to deny women the use of tobacco, but tobacco is bad for everybody concerned. Women solved one problem, but they created/extended another.

 

[farouk]

My skepticism is not woman-specific. In the past, men were wrong (and hypocritical), on the one hand, to deny women the use of tobacco, but tobacco is bad for everybody concerned. Women solved one problem, but they created/extended another.

@Sabertooth The comment about female tattoo artists to which you responded was really an aside. Thanks for you comment, in any case.

 

[farouk]

Thanks to all who voted so far in the poll!

NB: If you have not yet voted in the poll, please vote now! :)

 

[farouk]

Yes, was just looking at the poll and unsure. Really don’t have an answer. How can I vote on someone else’s life choice as God only knows what is good for them. I was writer. Plenty of people write novels. And it works for them. For me...it didn’t work and God brought me to a place of walking away from the novels. Greed was involved. Lust for money and fame and acceptance in the wrong form. It cultivated all the wrong things in my heart. Same with your poll ...it would depend on if it cultivated the wrong things as with any job or passion.

@VictoryinJesus Thank-you for your really good post; you seem always very thoughtful.

Thanks for taking a look at the poll; I would point out also that one of the poll options is 'Not sure / rather not say', so you would know if this more or less fits what you are expressing.

(Another of the poll options also refers specifically to women not being excluded from the profession; while you may have had some thoughts on this, they may not be uppermost in your reckoning.)

Thank-you, in any case.

 

[farouk]

My skepticism is not woman-specific.

PS: @Sabertooth You are right that some of the poll options do refer to women being included in the profession, yes.

So your observation was relevant, wasn't it?

 

[farouk]

the tatoo poll yes

@jshiii ii Thanks for your poll vote.

If you look now, the results are interesting so far...

 

[farouk]

I’m still considering buying her a gun.

@Waiting on him So did she give you any recent indication yet whether she would be glad and ready to receive a tattoo machine / 'gun' to use?

 

[Waiting on him]

@Waiting on him So did she give you any recent indication yet whether she would be glad and ready to receive a tattoo machine / 'gun' to use?

I’m gonna call her tomorrow morning and ask if she’d be interested.

 

[farouk]

I’m gonna call her tomorrow morning and ask if she’d be interested.

@Waiting on him Well, I guess, anyway, it's a practical, professional tool for skilled use which she would say has been ongoingly instrumental in making her feel enhanced, and, with her great flair for art, owning one herself could promise her some good measure of professional satisfaction in making others feel comparably enhanced. (If this makes sense?)

As a tool, for a long while already she would have been no stranger to it, anyway.

 

[farouk]

@Waiting on him PS: What you said is also consistent with one of the poll options, above: "Yes; positive for more Christian men AND women to train and work as tattoo artists ".

(...which I think you voted for, also.)

 

[farouk]

I find that to be a little idealistic...

PS: @Sabertooth
I guess as regards any satisfying profession it's hard to think of one that would be entirely void of an element of idealism (...if this makes sense?)

 

[farouk]

@VictoryinJesus Thanks again for your two lovely posts; they are among the best on this thread so far. :)

 

[farouk]

She might have a tattoo. I think she has a nose ring, too.

@Sabertooth Well, many tattooed women also have nose rings; it would be regarded I think as being part of a similar stylistic flair — and indeed a benign one.

 

[Sabertooth]

I guess as regards any satisfying profession it's hard to think of one that would be entirely void of an element of idealism (...if this makes sense?)

If one is willing to compromise their own convictions before God (not other people's convictions) for their art,* career fulfillment or just plain old money, it has become an idol to them. We can certainly repent, but there is a conflict of interests if those things keep bringing one back to that same place.

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." Matthew 6:24 NKJV

*That goes for all arts.

 

[Sabertooth]

Well, many tattooed women also have nose rings; it would be regarded I think as being part of a similar stylistic flair — and indeed a benign one.

I have no Biblical objection. I just think that it looks unflattering on my baby.

 

[farouk]

If one is willing to compromise their own convictions before God (not other people's convictions) for their art,* career fulfillment or just plain old money, it has become an idol to them. We can certainly repent, but there is a conflict of interests if those things keep bringing one back to that same place.

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." Matthew 6:24 NKJV

*That goes for all arts.

I agree; we need to search our hearts from the Scriptures; aesthetically, Philippians 4.8 is an important guide.

 

[farouk]

I have no Biblical objection.

@Sabertooth I don't, either. (Whatever Fundies, who habitually confuse past culture with theological accuracy, might try to say.)

Especially since im Ezekiel 16.12 the Lord is recorded as giving a nose ring to Zion, at least figuratively; and in Genesis Rebekah's earring - referred to as such in the King James - was probably a nose ring.

So many - often also inked - women wear nose rings now; it's becoming totally mainstream.

 

[Sabertooth]

So many - often also inked - women wear nose rings now; it's becoming totally mainstream.

That still brings us back to the tattoo-ed (as opposed to the tattoo-er). I don't have a theological problem with a benign or Godly tattoo. I have expressed a few practical reservations in previous posts, but they do not rise to the level of outright prohibition.

 

[farouk]

That still brings us back to the tattoo-ed (as opposed to the tattoo-er). I don't have a theological problem with a benign or Godly tattoo. I have expressed a few practical reservations in previous posts, but they do not rise to the level of outright prohibition.

@Sabertooth I guess a commission based, independent contractor Christian tattoo artist could supplement his or her income by piercing; it's a service also much in demand and offered by many parlors.