Daily Archives: November 11, 2020

Is it Acceptable for Christians to Pierce Their Bodies or Get Tattoos?

“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:28

We live in a culture obsessed with the body, with altering it, decorating it, mutilating it. The modern man wants to proclaim ownership of himself by etching ink into his skin and pushing metal through his flesh. The modern woman, deceived by vanity and rebellion, treats her body like a billboard for self-expression rather than a temple for God’s glory. The image of God has become a canvas for self-worship.

But what saith the Lord?

In an age when rebellion parades as freedom and defilement is called art, the Christian must once again ask: What does God say? What is righteous? What is holy? For those who walk in The Great Order, the answer must be clear, not according to trends, feelings, or peer approval, but rooted in the eternal Word of God.


I. God’s Prohibition in Leviticus – A Matter of Holiness, Not Just Ceremony

The foundational text is clear:

“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.”
Leviticus 19:28

This command was not arbitrary. It was given to separate the people of God from the surrounding pagan nations. The Canaanites, Egyptians, and other heathen peoples engaged in self-cutting and tattooing as acts of mourning, idol worship, tribal identification, and magical ritual. Tattoos and body piercings were, in origin, sacrificial and religious acts, outward signs of allegiance to false gods.

The people of Israel were called out, to be distinct. The commandment was not merely hygienic or cultural. It was holy. It was a declaration: You belong to YHWH, not Baal. You are set apart. You are mine.

Many modern Christians hastily dismiss this as “Old Testament law” with no relevance today. But they do so inconsistently. For the very same chapter (Leviticus 19) also condemns witchcraft (v. 26), prostitution (v. 29), and dishonoring the elderly (v. 32). Are these no longer sins? Shall we also affirm child prostitution or necromancy under the banner of “freedom in Christ”?

Some laws in the Torah were ceremonial and tied to temple practices, but others reflected unchanging moral principles rooted in the nature of God. Leviticus 19:28 falls into the latter. It reveals a divine standard: that the body is sacred and must not be defaced like those of the heathen.


II. The New Testament Confirms the Principle: The Body Is Not Our Own

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
1 Corinthians 6:19–20

This verse is not metaphorical poetry, it is doctrine. The believer has been purchased. Redeemed. His body is now a vessel of the Holy Spirit. A consecrated structure. It is not a personal art project; it is a sacred temple.

If we understand the weight of Paul’s words, the gravity of defiling the temple becomes clear. When Jesus drove out the moneychangers from the temple, it was not a small thing. He fashioned a whip. He overturned tables. He drove them out with righteous fury. Shall we now bring tattoo needles and nose rings into the temple of our bodies, claiming “Christian liberty”?

To glorify God with our bodies means we must not deface them. Solomon’s temple was not defiled with carvings of dragons and skulls. It was adorned with gold, with beauty, with order, all by God’s command. Likewise, our bodies are to reflect His glory, not our rebellion.


III. The Pagan Roots of Tattoos and Piercings

Historical research reveals that tattoos and body piercings have long been associated with idolatry, tribal paganism, and spiritual bondage.

  • In ancient Egypt, tattoos were linked to goddess worship, particularly Isis. Women often tattooed themselves as symbols of fertility rites.
  • In Canaanite culture, markings were made on the body to honor the dead or as initiation into pagan mysteries.
  • Roman soldiers tattooed themselves to signify loyalty to Caesar, a false god of the state.
  • In Polynesian tribal religion, tattooing was a rite of passage into adulthood, manhood, or spiritual transformation.
  • Hindu practices often include nose piercings for women, connected to marriage and spiritual significance under their gods.

The association between tattoos and paganism is not incidental. It is consistent. Throughout the centuries, the marks placed on the body were declarations of spiritual allegiance. What man inscribes on his body reveals what master he serves.

Is it any wonder that in the Bible, God’s people are forbidden from such markings, while the servants of Satan are described in Revelation as bearing the “mark of the beast”?

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.”
Revelation 13:16


IV. Scripture Calls Us to Be Set Apart

“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.”
1 Peter 1:14–16

“Abstain from all appearance of evil.”
1 Thessalonians 5:22

“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.”
2 Corinthians 6:17

Holiness is not simply inward. It is visible. Observable. Tangible. A Christian’s walk should reflect God’s order — and that includes his attire, his speech, his habits, and yes, even his body.

When you see a tattooed body, does it cry out “set apart” or does it whisper “blending in”?

Let’s be honest. The modern tattoo culture is not driven by piety. It is driven by rebellion, vanity, and worldliness. It is associated with rock stars, gang members, feminists, bikers, and those who boast in sin. Shall we, the holy nation, the peculiar people, the royal priesthood, adorn ourselves like them?


V. The Deception of “Christian Tattoos”

Some will say, “But my tattoo is a cross!” or “It’s a verse!” or “It’s meant to honor God!”

The question is not what the tattoo says. The question is whether the practice itself honors the God who forbids it.

Would a man honor the King by disobeying His law? Would a priest paint graffiti on the temple wall and justify it by claiming it says “God is love”? A tattoo of Scripture is still rebellion if God has commanded us not to mark our bodies.

Furthermore, we must not forget that Satan often disguises evil as light.

“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
2 Corinthians 11:14

“Christian tattoos” are often just a baptized version of worldliness. A sanctified mask for self-expression. But righteousness is not about rebranding the ways of the world, it’s about rejecting them.


VI. The Problem of Piercings

While some argue that earrings or piercings are culturally neutral or even biblical, pointing to references of earrings in Genesis or Exodus, we must make a key distinction.

In Scripture, earrings are often:

  • Given as spoil (Genesis 35:4; Exodus 32:2),
  • Associated with idol worship (Judges 8:24–27),
  • Or connected with feminine adornment (Ezekiel 16:12).

They are never commanded, and they are never treated as holy or righteous. In fact, their connection with idolatry should give us pause.

More importantly, in our current age, the proliferation of piercings, in ears, noses, lips, navels, and beyond, is a sign of cultural breakdown and gender confusion. Men now wear earrings. Women pierce their faces in grotesque ways. The lines between male and female blur, and the image of God is vandalized.

For the man of God walking in the Great Order, and for the woman of God pursuing meekness and modesty, piercings are not a mark of virtue. They are marks of conformity to a dying and decadent world.


VII. Forgiveness and Restoration

What if you already have tattoos or piercings? Is all hope lost? God forbid.

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9

The blood of Christ cleanses even the defiled temple. He forgives. He renews. But forgiveness is not a license to sin again. We do not presume upon grace.

Some tattoos cannot be removed, but they can be covered. Others may be a testimony, not of pride, but of repentance. The key is this: Do not justify the sin. Acknowledge it. Reject it. And do not repeat it.


VIII. Reason and Creation Affirm God’s Design

Let us conclude with simple reasoning and righteous deduction.

  • The body is the creation of God.
  • The body is the image of God.
  • The body is the temple of God.
  • The body is to be set apart from the world.

Therefore, it follows:

The Christian has no liberty to mutilate, mark, or desecrate his body according to his own whims or worldly fashion.

God did not make a mistake in your design. Your skin does not need improvement. As one Jewish rabbi once observed:

“No matter how well considered, a tattoo is the result of a short-term decision to decorate the body forever. What hubris to imagine that any of us, as individuals, can improve artistically on the original design of the Lord.”

Indeed. It is hubris. It is rebellion. It is a denial of God’s sufficiency.


IX. Let the People of God Be Holy

Let this be the cry of the remnant: We will not be marked by the world. We will not wear the badges of Babylon. We will be holy, consecrated, unpolluted.

Let the pagans ink their flesh. Let the rebels pierce their faces. Let the feminists defy God with rainbow tattoos. But let the people of the Great Order glorify God in body and spirit, which are His.

“Be ye not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…”
Romans 12:2


Conclusion:
Christians should not pierce their bodies or get tattoos. The weight of Scripture, the testimony of history, and the witness of creation all declare the same message: Your body is not your own. It is the Lord’s. Keep it holy.

Let us fear God. Let us obey His Word. Let us glorify Him with every fiber of our being, ink-free, metal-free, and set apart.

Soli Deo Gloria.
Let the Great Order rise.

The Truth About MLK

The Real Martin Luther King Jr:

Every January, the media go into a kind of almost spastic frenzy of adulation for the so-called “Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.” King has even had a national holiday declared in his honor, an honor accorded to no other American, not Washington, not Jefferson, not Lincoln. (Washington and Lincoln no longer have holidays — they share the generic-sounding “President’s Day.”) A liberal judge has sealed the FBI files on King until the year 2027. What are they hiding? Let’s take a look at this modern-day plastic god.

Born in 1929, King was the son of a Black preacher known at the time only as “Daddy King.” “Daddy King” named his son Michael. In 1935, “Daddy King” had an inspiration to name himself after the Protestant reformer Martin Luther. He declared to his congregation that henceforth they were to refer to him as “Martin Luther King” and to his son as “Martin Luther King, Jr.” None of this name changing was ever legalized in court. “Daddy” King’s son’s real name is to this day Michael King.

King’s Brazen Cheating:

We read in Michael Hoffman’s “Holiday for a Cheater “, The first public sermon that King ever gave, in 1947 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, was plagiarized from a homily by Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled “Life is What You Make It,” according to the testimony of King’s best friend of that time, Reverend Larry H. Williams.

The first book that King wrote, “Stride Toward Freedom, – -was plagiarized from numerous sources, all unattributed, according to documentation recently assembled by sympathetic King scholars Keith D. Miller, Ira G. Zepp, Jr., and David J. Garrow and no less an authoritative source than the four senior editors of “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- – (an official publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., whose staff includes King’s widow Coretta), stated of King’s writings at both Boston University and Crozer Theological Seminary: “Judged retroactively by the standards of academic scholarship, [his writings] are tragically flawed by numerous instances of plagiarism…. Appropriated passages are particularly evident in his writings in his major field of graduate study, systematic theology.”

King’s essay, “The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding God,” written at Crozer, pirated passages from the work of theologian Edgar S. Brightman, author of “The Finding of God.”

Another of King’s theses, “Contemporary Continental Theology,” written shortly after he entered Boston University, was largely stolen from a book by Walter Marshall Horton.

King’s doctoral dissertation, “A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman,” for which he was awarded a PhD in theology, contains more than fifty complete sentences plagiarized from the PhD dissertation of Dr. Jack Boozer, “The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich’s Concept of God.”

According to “The Martin Luther King Papers”, in King’s dissertation “only 49 per cent of sentences in the section on Tillich contain five or more words that were King’s own….”!

In “The Journal of American History”, June 1991, page 87, David J. Garrow, a leftist academic who is sympathetic to King, says that King’s wife, Coretta Scott King, who also served as his secretary, was an accomplice in his repeated cheating. (“King’s Plagiarism: Imitation, Insecurity and Transformation,” The Journal of American History, June 1991, p. 87)

Reading Garrow’s article, one is led to the inescapable conclusion that King cheated because he had chosen for himself a political role in which a PhD would be useful, and, lacking the intellectual ability to obtain the title fairly, went after it by any means necessary. Why, then, one might ask, did the professors at Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University grant him passing grades and a PhD? Garrow states on page 89: “King’s academic compositions, especially at Boston University, were almost without exception little more than summary descriptions… and comparisons of other’s writings.

Nonetheless, the papers almost always received desirable letter grades, strongly suggesting that King’s professors did not expect more….” The editors of “The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers” state that “…the failure of King’s teachers to notice his pattern of textual appropriation is somewhat remarkable….” But researcher Michael Hoffman tells us “…actually the malfeasance of the professors is not at all remarkable. King was politically correct, he was Black, and he had ambitions. The leftist [professors were] happy to award a doctorate to such a candidate no matter how much fraud was involved. Nor is it any wonder that it has taken forty years for the truth about King’s record of nearly constant intellectual piracy to be made public.” Supposed scholars, who in reality shared King’s vision of a racially mixed and Marxist America, purposely covered up his cheating for decades. The cover-up still continues. From the “New York Times ” of October 11, 1991, page 15, we learn that on October 10th of that year, a committee of researchers at Boston University admitted that, “There is no question but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation.” However, despite its finding, the committee said that “No thought should be given to the revocation of Dr. King’s doctoral degree,” an action the panel said “would serve no purpose.” No purpose, indeed! Justice demands that, in light of his willful fraud as a student, the “reverend” and the “doctor” should be removed from King’s name.

Communist Beliefs and Connections

Well friends, he is not a legitimate reverend, he is not a bona fide PhD, and his name isn’t really “Martin Luther King, Jr.” What’s left? Just a sexual degenerate, an America-hating Communist, and a criminal betrayer of even the interests of his own people.

On Labor Day, 1957, a special meeting was attended by Martin Luther King and four others at a strange institution called the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. The Highlander Folk School was a Communist front, having been founded by Myles Horton (Communist Party organizer for Tennessee) and Don West (Communist Party organizer for North Carolina). The leaders of this meeting with King were the aforementioned Horton and West, along with Abner Berry and James Dumbrowski, all open and acknowledged members of the Communist Party, USA. The agenda of the meeting was a plan to tour the Southern states to initiate demonstrations and riots. From 1955 to 1960, Martin Luther King’s associate, advisor, and personal secretary was one Bayard Rustin. In 1936 Rustin joined the Young Communist League at New York City College.

Convicted of draft-dodging, he went to prison for two years in 1944. On January 23, 1953 the “Los Angeles Times” reported his conviction and sentencing to jail for 60 days for lewd vagrancy and homosexual perversion. Rustin attended the 16th Convention of the Communist Party, USA in February, 1957. One month later, he and King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, or SCLC for short. The president of the SCLC was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The vice-president of the SCLC was the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who was also the president of an identified Communist front known as the Southern Conference Educational Fund, an organization whose field director, a Mr. Carl Braden, was simultaneously a national sponsor of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, of which you may have heard. The program director of the SCLC was the Reverend Andrew Young, in more recent years Jimmy Carter’s ambassador to the UN and mayor of Atlanta. Young, by the way, was trained at the Highlander Folk School, previously mentioned.

Soon after returning from a trip to Moscow in 1958, Rustin organized the first of King’s famous marches on Washington. The official organ of the Communist Party, “The Worker,- – openly declared the march to be a Communist project. Although he left King’s employ as secretary in 1961, Rustin was called upon by King to be second in command of the much larger march on Washington which took place on August 28, 1963. Bayard Rustin’s replacement in 1961 as secretary and advisor to King was Jack O’Dell, also known as Hunter Pitts O’Dell. According to official records, in 1962 Jack O’Dell was a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party, USA. He had been listed as a Communist Party member as early as 1956. O’Dell was also given the job of acting executive director for SCLC activities for the entire Southeast, according to the St. Louis “Globe-Democrat – -of October 26, 1962. At that time, there were still some patriots in the press corps, and word of O’Dell’s party membership became known.

What did King do? Shortly after the negative news reports, King fired O’Dell with much fanfare. And he then, without the fanfare, “immediately hired him again- – as director of the New York office of the SCLC, as confirmed by the “Richmond News-Leader – -of September 27, 1963. In 1963 a Black man from Monroe, North Carolina named Robert Williams made a trip to Peking, China. Exactly 20 days before King’s 1963 march on Washington, Williams successfully urged Mao Tse-Tung to speak out on behalf of King’s movement. Mr. Williams was also around this time maintaining his primary residence in Cuba, from which he made regular broadcasts to the southern US, three times a week, from high-power AM transmitters in Havana under the title “Radio Free Dixie.” In these broadcasts, he urged violent attacks by Blacks against White Americans. During this period, Williams wrote a book entitled “Negroes With Guns.” The writer of the foreword for this book? None other than Martin Luther King, Jr. It is also interesting to note that the editors and publishers of this book were to a man all supporters of the infamous Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

According to King’s biographer and sympathizer David J. Garrow, “King privately described himself as a Marxist.” In his 1981 book, “The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.”, Garrow quotes King as saying in SCLC staff meetings, “…we have moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…. The whole structure of American life must be changed…. We are engaged in the class struggle.” Jewish Communist Stanley Levison can best be described as King’s behind-the-scenes “handler.” Levison, who had for years been in charge of the secret funnelling of Soviet funds to the Communist Party, USA, was King’s mentor and was actually the brains behind many of King’s more successful ploys. It was Levison who edited King’s book, “Stride Toward Freedom.” It was Levison who arranged for a publisher. Levison even prepared King’s income tax returns! It was Levison who really controlled the fund-raising and agitation activities of the SCLC. Levison wrote many of King’s speeches. King described Levison as one of his “closest friends.

FBI: King Bought Sex With SCLC Money

The Federal Bureau of Investigation had for many years been aware of Stanley Levison’s Communist activities. It was Levison’s close association with King that brought about the initial FBI interest in King. Lest you be tempted to believe the controlled media’s lie about “racists” in the FBI being out to “get” King, you should be aware that the man most responsible for the FBI’s probe of King was Assistant Director William C. Sullivan. Sullivan describes himself as a liberal, and says that initially “I was one hundred per cent for King…because I saw him as an effective and badly needed leader for the Black people in their desire for civil rights.” The probe of King not only confirmed their suspicions about King’s Communist beliefs and associations, but it also revealed King to be a despicable hypocrite, an immoral degenerate, and a worthless charlatan.

According to Assistant Director Sullivan, who had direct access to the surveillance files on King which are denied the American people, King had embezzled or misapplied substantial amounts of money contributed to the “civil rights” movement. King used SCLC funds to pay for liquor, and numerous prostitutes both Black and White, who were brought to his hotel rooms, often two at a time, for drunken sex parties which sometimes lasted for several days. These types of activities were the norm for King’s speaking and organizing tours. In fact, an outfit called The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, which is putting on display the two bedrooms from the Lorraine Motel where King stayed the night before he was shot, has declined to depict in any way the “occupants – -of those rooms. That “according to exhibit designer Gerard Eisterhold “would be “close to blasphemy.” The reason? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two women at the motel and physically beating and abusing a third.

Sullivan also stated that King had alienated the affections of numerous married women. According to Sullivan, who in 30 years with the Bureau had seen everything there was to be seen of the seamy side of life, King was one of only seven people he had ever encountered who was such a total degenerate. Noting the violence that almost invariably attended King’s supposedly “non-violent” marches, Sullivan’s probe revealed a very different King from the carefully crafted public image. King welcomed members of many different Black groups as members of his SCLC, many of them advocates and practitioners of violence. King’s only admonition on the subject was that they should embrace “tactical nonviolence.” Sullivan also relates an incident in which King met in a financial conference with Communist Party representatives, not knowing that one of the participants was an infiltrator actually working for the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover personally saw to it that documented information on King’s Communist connections was provided to the President and to Congress. And conclusive information from FBI files was also provided to major newspapers and news wire services. But were the American people informed of King’s real nature? No, for even in the 1960s, the fix was in “the controlled media and the bought politicians were bound and determined to push their racial mixing program on America.

King was their man and nothing was going to get in their way. With a few minor exceptions, these facts have been kept from the American people. The pro-King propaganda machine grinds on, and it is even reported that a serious proposal has been made to add some of King’s writings as a new book in the Bible. Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of this radio program is far greater than to prove to you the immorality and subversion of this man called King. I want you to start to think for yourselves. I want you to consider this: What are the forces and motivation behind the controlled media’s active promotion of King? What does it tell you about our politicians when you see them, almost without exception, falling all over themselves to honor King as a national hero? What does it tell you about our society when any public criticism of this moral leper and Communist functionary is considered grounds for dismissal?

What does it tell you about the controlled media when you see how they have successfully suppressed the truth and held out a picture of King that can only be described as a colossal lie? You need to think, my fellow Americans. You desperately need to wake up.

Sources:

1. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- – (an official publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change).

2. “King’s Plagiarism: Imitation, Insecurity and Transformation,” The Journal of American History, June 1991, p. 87) David J. Garrow

3. New York Times” of October 11, 1991, page 15.

4. “The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.”, David J. Garrow, (1981). 5. “And the walls came tumbling down,” Rev. Ralph Abernathy (1989)