Jesus, tattoos, and identity
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Driving through town with my 12-year old grandson, I mentioned how many tattoo shops I saw. It seemed normal to him. But not to me. There’s a fifty-year gap in life experience between us, yet a closeness in our relationship. Neither of us have any tattoos…yet.
People who had tattoos when I was twelve usually had life experience in the military, a gang, or prison. What can I say, I led a sheltered life.
Times have changed! It was a different time then but there were other cultural expressions I embraced — long hair, beads, tie-dye, bell-bottoms. That’s how I see tattoos now — a personal cultural expression or identity.
What hasn’t changed is the purpose for tattoos. It’s an identity thing, always has been. Tattoos are symbolic and personal in cultures throughout the world.
Tattoos are symbolic and personal...
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