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Posted by: David Bunch

Here's a story of one pastor in Colombus who decided that the best way for his congregation to celebrate on Easter Sunday was to have someone get a cross tattoo-in the sanctuary.

When you think of an Easter service, you probably don’t picture 30 parishioners gathered around, looking on as a guy named Iggy presses a tattoo gun into a fellow parishioner’s forearm. Nathan Feathers, the young pastor of this new alternachurch, wanted to add a jolt of adrenaline to his Easter service, something edgier than the church’s resident rock band.

Feathers practices what he preaches:

Feathers himself has two tattoos, the co-pastor of the church has seven, and much of the congregation is inked to one degree or another.

Huh? I thought the Bible spoke against tattoos.

“ Leviticus 19 does say something against tattoos,” Feathers said. “But at that time, tattoos were a symbol of worship of idol gods. That’s not what tattoos are for now.”

No, we don't have idols of stone in our culture these days, but are people not making gods of themselves-and their bodies? Tattoos at worst are a desecration of the body (which should be the Temple of the Holy Spirit) and at best are nothing more than self glorification (decorating the body in a twisted attitude of self worship).

There is a such thing as the church relating to culture but this unholy attempt was misguided and almost blasphemous.