Tattoos vs. Jesus

[carrowsboy]

This is happening in my city and has my blood boiling! I'm trying to construct a response letter now... Any ideas or witty quips I should add in my response to this asshole?

http://www.progress-index.com/articles/2008/11/04/editorial/pi_progindex.20081104.a.pg4.pi00cahill_s1.2012259_edi.txt

Tattoo parlors don’t belong in neighborhoods

To the Editor:

Notwithstanding protestations of good behavior, the presence of a tattoo parlor at the entrance to Sherwood Hills is a blight on our neighborhood (Bad Ink, The Progress-Index, Oct. 10) and a failure on the part of the city administration and city council; one of the many failures for which I intend to hold the incumbents accountable on Election Day, but that’s another letter.

Ms. Childress, the owner of USA Tattoo, needs to know that I am watching this establishment, and intend to petition the police chief to close it as a public nuisance at the first sign of trouble. I have noted an increase in the number of taxis bringing soldiers in on the weekends. Although I am a retired soldier myself and have nothing but respect for the men and women in our Armed Forces, I am concerned about this kind of traffic so close to my home.
While I commend Bob Moore for his ingenuity in articulating a biblical argument against tattoo parlors, I doubt that argument will have much effect on our city council, given its willingness to accommodate businesses. The hedonistic and atheistic culture that we live in today is also working against him.

Jason Hanley’s argument that the biblical prohibition against tattooing refers to ancient funerary practices is a common dodge. The plain text of the passage refers to the dead only in the context of “making cuttings in flesh.” The ban on tattooing is not tied to the funerary practice and is, in fact, absolute. Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, and, as such, should not be adorned with symbols, especially those of paganism or witchcraft.

His other argument, that tattoo parlors are already regulated by the state, is false as regards their location. While a proprietor needs to obtain a license from the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to operate a tattoo parlor, he/she can set up shop wherever the locality permits, which is why the city is at fault for the location of USA Tattoo. Some time ago, the city rezoned the first block of Sherwood Drive to allow for the establishment of doctor’s offices. One of the doctors moved out and USA Tattoo moved in, under the zoning then in effect. How a tattoo parlor equates to a doctor’s office is a mystery to me.

What the city needs is an amendment to the zoning ordinance that classifies businesses and only permits certain types of businesses to locate on the approaches to or in close proximity to residential neighborhoods. This should be addressed immediately, in preparation for the expansion of Fort Lee. The citizens and residents of the city should not sanction or be forced to accept the establishment nuisance businesses, including more tattoo parlors, more payday loan and check cashing businesses and independent car dealerships, close to their homes. The location of these businesses needs to be as closely controlled as adult bookstores. If the city needs to petition the General Assembly in this regard, it should do so forthwith.

Bob Haugh

[MercutioATC]

1. Bob needs a hobby.

...or a tattoo...

[pinepuppy]

2. well I guess I'm going to hell then

if old bob is in heaven i'm not surei want to go,

[MercutioATC]

4. My Kokopelli tat condemed me to a fiery eternity years ago.

I'm ok with that. I love the tattoo.

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. I have a kokopelli as well!

It's on my left shin. I even found an awesome pic of a sunburst on the net, printed it, and took it to my tat guy. He put it right over koko. Awesome.

^5!

[MercutioATC]

9. Nice! Mine's a primitive cave painting that I found in a book and altered a bit.

Left side of my chest.

[Vickers]

3. There is a place in the shopping district of Wiesbaden, Germany that has

a sex shop right next to a place that sells caskets.

People here are WAY too uptight.

[Buck Laser]

5. What kind of tattoo would Jesus get?

Maybe just "Mom?"

[jobycom]

6. Makes me want a tattoo. Is the same Bob who takes the penis enlargement stuff?

[pinepuppy]

7. if it was

he wouldnt be complaining about tattoos

[jobycom]

11. Well, it's just that he seemed like a big penis.

[laconicsax]

10. Pretty sure that the same part of the Bible also has some other neat rules.

He's talking about Levitcus 19:28

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

I doubt he follows the rest of the rules in that chapter, like the prohibition of cross-breeding cattle, mixing crops, or wearing mixed wool and linens (verse 19)

Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

The rule about cutting your hair and beard (verse 27)

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

Or the rule about uncircumcised fruit (verses 23 and 24)

(23)And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of. (24)But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.

I wonder if he follows the rules in Jeremiah 10:2-4

(2)Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. (3)For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. (4)They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

:shrug:

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