This passage, including the surrounding text, is specifically dealing with the pagan religious rituals of the people living around the Israelites. The focus here is prohibiting worldly, heathen worship and witchcraft. God forbids His holy people to engage in idolatrous, pagan worship and sorcery like those who do not follow Him.
@2 Chr. 34:19 I take your point indeed about paganism and its contextual necromancy, yes; some say that it refers to lacerating and daubing for pagan ceremonies; it's interesting also that in the next verse it seems to say about not trimming beards; do preachers shave? if they do, maybe they are backhandedly acknowledging that they are New Testament believers under grace for whom the Gospel - and consequent witness tools also - are the rule of the believer's life, rather than Old Testament Jews in the land under the law. My wife and I talked to a young lady with the wording of John 3.16 inked onto her wrist area; it would be exceedingly hard to say that this - her favorite verse, and mine also - was the sign of her supposed paganism.
I do see how a Christian woman with for example 'Bill' - of possibly unsavoury memories - inked in might want 'Bible' inked in by way of alteration; or a Christian man with a pentagram might want it altered to a Star of David, etc.
Even if such further steps are not desired by Christians with existing tattoos, it's so clear that their mainstreaming has became a very transparent fact; GodsGrace's comment a while back:
almost every young girl I know has some sort of tatoo. Even those very conservative types.
is exactly accurate that it's something that huge numbers of very conservative ppl - especially young women - expect to do.
So did your admiration for Chris Hemsworth predate your realization that he had been tattooed?
