Christian tattoo parlor avoids profane designs like peace symbols

[pokerfan]

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070428/NEWS06/704280322/1001

Henry won't tattoo any design "that glorifies sin," he said. Limitations include marijuana leaves, profanity, peace signs and homosexuality.

[billyskank]

1. Peace is a sin?

What's he been reading, the Gospel according to St. Bastard?

[buddhamama]

3. nice Izzard quote

:thumbsup: :hi:

[billyskank]

6. There's a good Izzard quote for almost everything

;)

:hi:

[pokerfan]

7. Isn't Jesus AKA the Prince of Peace?

[billyskank]

8. So I heard

I don't think it's that dude they're following. :shrug:

[xmas74]

12. I heart Eddie!

More, please!

[fizzgig]

16. hahahaha!

:loveya:

[datasuspect]

2. peace glorifies sin

"mabel, can you fire off a memo to jesus and let him know about this, hon? yeah, that'd be great. mmmkay."

[buddhamama]

5. when people are practicing peace

there are more likely to have sex. that's my theory and i am sticking to it. :)

[bullwinkle428]

4. Peace signs = "glorifying sin"

...yet there are still those that want to deny that a certain segment of Christianity has descended into some kind of cult-like following...

They can scream in my ear for the next thousand years that the other things are "sins" as well, and I still won't believe them, but I'd LOVE to their logic regarding the peace sign.

[Kutjara]

9. I remember this crap from Catholic school.

The nuns went medieval on some kid's ass because he wore a peace-symbol pendant to school. It seems that the peace sign is actually an inverted broken cross and is, therefore, an affront to Jesus, Christianity, America, apple pie and little bitty kittens. At least that's what the school administration spent the next month drilling into our heads.

And people wonder why I'm an atheist.

[pokerfan]

10. Origins of the symbol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbol

This forked symbol was adopted as its badge by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain, and originally, its use was confined to supporters of that organization. It was later generalised to become an icon of the 1960s anti-war movement, and was also adopted by the counterculture of the time. It was designed and completed February 21, 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a commercial designer and artist in Britain. He had been commissioned by the CND to design a symbol for use at an Easter march to Canterbury Cathedral in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in England.

Antagonism

The fact that the symbol resembles a bird foot in a circle gave rise to spurious alternative interpretations, ranging from plain mockery of "crow's foot" or "The Footprint of the American Chicken" (suggesting that peace activists were cowards) to a number of occult meanings, such as an upside down crucifix with the arms broken downward, suggesting the way that St. Peter was martyred. Others have claimed that the symbol resembles a medieval sign known as "Nero's Cross" that represents Satanism. Alternatively, some have suggested that the symbol is an inverted Elhaz rune, which would reverse the rune's meaning, according to the critics, from 'life' to 'death' (although the Elhaz rune is thought to mean elk<1>). As well, a commonly repeated conjecture during the 1960s was that it was an antichrist symbol: a representation Jesus on the cross upside-down. Gerald Holtom's explanation of the genesis of the symbol and his first drawings of it, however, do not support those interpretations.<2><3><4><5>


Sheesh, Thank g-d I'm an athiest.

[Deja Q]

11. So they won't accept the image I wanted buzzed on my skin of

Jesus and Judas gettin' it on? (We all know Judas did it because of a failed romance... :wow: )

[pokerfan]

14. LOL

Was there the simple courtesy of a reach-around?

[rug]

13. .

"While serving time in jail in Indiana for a felony drug charge . . . . he became a Christian."

[sarge43]

15. Oh well, so much for those blessed peace makers n/t

[Cabcere]

27. Maybe they thought it was

"blessed are the cheese makers," a la "Life of Brian?" :shrug:

[sarge43]

29. Ah, of course. You can't go wrong with "Life of Brian" ref. n/t

[stuntcat]

17. if ANYTHING happening lately is a Sign

is Holy war bad? Is God's Image raping our one planet not enough?
Now Good Christians are banning peace?? I wonder if they'd let you get the finger symbol?
Or a dove with an olive branch, like in the Bibles??

[YellowRubberDuckie]

18. When I was being indoctrinated into the Southern Baptist Church...

Part of the education was a study on occult symbols. Apparently the peace sign is an upside down cross with the bar in the t broken, making it Satanic.
I shit you not. This was an entire lesson in Youth Group.
Duckie

[NightWatcher]

21. I remember that lesson

it was followed by the satanic music lesson, (KISS, AC/DC.....)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

22. Yep...

Kings in Satan's Service and AntiChrist/Devil Child. LOL
What a load of bullshit.
Duckie

[HuffleClaw]

28. antichrist/devil child? ?? bwahahhahahhahha

ok, that is just hilarious. remember a guy named 'mike warnke'? he was a complete loon and would spout the funniest stuff about such things.

[Critters2]

23. Wow. I never learned anything like that,

and God knows I've never taught it. There isn't enough real sin in the world so these people go around inventing new ones? Sheesh!

[NightWatcher]

19. Will they do pictures of fully dressed ladies instead of naked chicks

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. guess i couldnt have gotten my lambda tattoo from him.

i think its just as outrageous that he doesn't allow homosexuality tattoos.

[otherlander]

24. If peace is a sin, it just goes to show

that love is the ultimate act of rebellion.

[Left Is Write]

25. Has he heard of the Prince Of Peace?

Maybe he's got Jesus mixed up with Ozzy Osbourne ("But Sharon! I'm the prince of fuckin' darkness!")

[Reverend_Smitty]

26. wow, ok...

I don't even know what to say about this...people are friggen delusional if they honestly think a peace symbol is an affront to God. It just boggles my mind...it really does

[Orsino]

30. Wonder whether he'd do a "Bush-Cheney" tattoo?

If peace is a sin, then the * Administration are saints.