Thursday, February 23, 2006

Signs of Descent

Theodore Dalrymple addresses one of my pet peeves.

2 comments:

Tiger said...

Indeed! Tattooing, body-piercing - all that type of behavior is a symptom of much greater societal problems, as you say, "Signs of Descent".

I don't need to remind you, Whit, of the biblical significance of this behavior.

Anonymous said...

No, you don't need to remind me. I just didn't bother to look up the verses prohibiting tattoos and marks for the dead.

I think the proliferation of tattoos is a reflection of the secularization. Previous generations knew the what the Bible said about them.