Mandala tattoo question

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Have you seen Razzouk’s instagram account? He tattooed occult symbols on his customers and i found that questionable. Unless im misinformed that the norse runic symbols or the triple maiden isnt occult. Would be great if someone more knowledgable could chip in .
 
I’d question whether a person getting a pagan tattoo is doing so “for the glory of God”, or some other reason (e.g. their secular humanist best friend has one). It may be no more sinful than visiting a nudist colony or bingewatching videos of gore, but it begs the question: Why do it?

I’d question the intentions of any Catholic getting that type of tattoo, as I have the feeling it wouldn’t be simply because “it’s pretty”. Countless things in this world are, so why choose the Mandala in particular?

Some find the swastika aesthetically pleasing, despite its religious/political ties… Just because you can get a certain tattoo, doesn’t mean you should.
 
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I’m not going to review every design a tattoo artist ever did to see if it meets some Catholic’s standards. An artist may do thousands of tattoos in their lifetime and there’s no way I can review them all. In addition, many so-called “Occult” symbols have multiple meanings.
All I care about is what the artist is putting on my own arm.
If you don’t want to use a particular artist, that’s your issue.
I designed my own Christian tattoo and he put my own design on me.

We also talked about sin while he was doing it and he said something about avoidance of sin that made a big impression on me and I have remembered it ever since. So God was acting through him at that moment IMHO.

It seems like the majority of Catholics who post here just don’t like tattoos and are frustrated that the Church doesn’t agree with them, and therefore go looking for reasons to condemn others who have them. Sad.

By the way I found out about Razzouk through a Catholic tour guide who takes his Catholic tour groups there.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
It seems like the majority of Catholics who post here just don’t like tattoos and are frustrated that the Church doesn’t agree with them
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Yup. “I don’t like them so I’m going to hunting for something that makes agreeing with with me mandatory.”
 
Part of the effects of Original Sin is that people have a darkened intellect and weakened ability to distinguish good from evil and sin from not sin. So, for example, we see something that we find distasteful and then we have a tendency to see that thing as sinful. Or maybe we see somebody in a certain outfit do something evil, and then we have a tendency to view people that wear a similar outfit as evil. This is what leads to things such as unjust judgement, prejudice, bullying, paranoia, etc.

We have to follow the Church carefully because when we start inventing our own system of morality it very easily deviates from the truth. In fact, it is impossible not to error in our present condition if we try to do it alone. We think we’re God and our intuitions about right and wrong are flawless, but they aren’t.
 
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CRV said:
Haydock also notes -
(3 Macchabees) Theodoret (q. 18) mentions, that the pagans were accustomed to cut their cheeks, and to prick themselves with needles, infusing some black matter , out of respect for the dead, and for demons." ← perhaps this is why tattoos have been/are considered sinful as the method is the same. Granted it isn’t usually done for these reasons.
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Father Mike addresses this in his video that I posted.
 
I have a vague memory of reading somewhere once that this “black matter” was the ashes of their dead. Obviously this doesn’t apply to tattoo ink.

Edited to add - on my earlier comment I was wondering if perhaps that was why some people think tattoos are sinful or perhaps why in the past people believed that was the case.

I have expressly avoided saying what my own opinion is regarding tattoos.
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Tis_Bearself:
It seems like the majority of Catholics who post here just don’t like tattoos and are frustrated that the Church doesn’t agree with them
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Yup. “I don’t like them so I’m going to hunting for something that makes
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^^ if these comments are a pot shot aimed at me, I think this was unnecessary.

Won’t be commenting further in this thread.
 
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CRV said:
^^ if these comments are a pot shot aimed at me, I think this was unnecessary.
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The post you’re quoting is a response to calisthenics’ post attacking a Christian tattoo artist, and is showing as such in the thread.

With respect to everybody else, I’d say if the shoe fits, wear it; if the shoe doesn’t fit, then ignore it.
 
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I am not attacking a christian artist but merely asking.


well its the 9th of August and i am done with all the toxic accusations and false witnessing against me. Its just silly, as a catholic i ask and get attacked 60-70% of the time. This isnt the first but the third or 4th time i am facing hostility from Tis_Bearself. Time after time i have read your responses and notice a gag reflex, almost a hyper sensitivity. And when things are not in your court, a stab is given followed by an exit.

I am done with this place and will have my account cancelled. Bye!
 
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Secular entertainers and leftist activists have a lot of tattoos. Catholics shouldn’t imitate them. And mandalas are a Hindu artform, that’s a good reason to avoid them. You don’t want anybody to think you’re a Hindu. So a mandala tattoo is two bad ideas combined.
 
BlueKumul said:
Secular entertainers and leftist activists have a lot of tattoos. Catholics shouldn’t imitate them.
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“Secular entertainers and leftist activists wear shoes. Therefore, Catholics shouldn’t wear shoes.”

See where the logic breaks down?
 
Everybody has to wear shoes, but tattoos are unnecessary. What purpose do they serve, other than being “cool”?

Tattoos are such a huge part of secular/leftist culture that having none is a signal of being outside it, “not of the world”.
 
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