Christian Tattoos and Tattoo Designs

The History Of This Sublime Paradox

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A hundred years ago, and you would have been very hard pressed to find anyone wearing a Christian tattoo design. As a part of history, tattoos have been most often frowned upon by not only the Christian clergy, but also the Jewish and Muslim faiths. Because of a Bible verse tucked into the book of Leviticus which states (in the new Message translation written to modern language):

  Lev 19:28 "Don't gash your bodies on behalf of the dead. Don't tattoo yourselves. I      am GOD.��

�the art itself was forbidden to the followers of the faith and has only recently been reclaimed by the younger men and women of America and across the whole face of the earth.

Despite the protestations of parents, preachers, teachers and bosses decrying the practice of getting any tattoos, even Christian themed ones, the modern youth seem to have reclaimed this ancient art and use it to worship God, Jesus and or the Holy Spirit. And while Christians still face dirty looks and a loss of credibility with some folk simply because they have tattoo, that��s nothing compared wit

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