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So...I just came home today and well...

I told my parents about it, and my dad got mad because he says that even though, "IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE THAT YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO!"

And then I told him about the other Christians out there that get it and they pray about it before getting a tattoo.

I don't really want to say the whole thing because right now I'm just upset and feel like crying.

There was this Japanese pop culture style haircut I got a few months back, and my dad is not happy about it because he says that it it "un-Chrisitian" and that it will lead me to sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. And that I only got that haircut because of peers at my school.

What!?

I'm not even trying to follow them.

And no matter how much I tell my parents, they are all like, "EVEN THOUGH YOU STILL CAN'T. WE DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU'RE DOING, AND WHAT YOUR'E DOING IS REBELLION! LAST TIME, YOU WANTED TO PAINT YOUR NAILS BLUE.."

I wanted to paint them blue becasue I liked that color. I don't see how being artisticly creative with how I look will get in my relationship with God or other fellow Christians.

The only Christians that would get in the way are parents like mine, super conservative Christians. My parents are so...

uggh.
I just wish they were more open-minded and see that there is more out there than just the typical, stereotypical Christian.

And they go on to tell me that Christian punks, goths, emos, etc. are not Christian at all because they follow "American culture", as in...they don't change the way they look and don't follow the Bible. They are professing Christians.

Same thing with tattoos.

Then they go on to telling me that it is the mark of the Devil, etc.

I'm very upset right now.

And my dad, being the egotistical mouth head that he is, goes on to say to me, "FINE THEN! BE THAT WAY! WHEN YOU'RE 21, GO AHEAD AND GET A TATTOO! GET THAT HAIRCUT! I'LL KICK YOU OUT OF THE HOUSE!"


...gosh.
I wasn't even...

I don't know, but right now I just feel like crying. I really don't know what to do. I even told them that Christians on this guild agree with me, but then he's all like, "HOW DO YOU EVEN KNOW IF THEY ARE CHRISTIAN!? YOU ARE TALKING TO PEOPLE ONLINE! FROM NOW ON, I'LL TAKE OFF YOUR MYSPACE, ETC."

uggh.

And then he goes on to saying that the kids at Central (the church I go to on Sundays) are like that because they are following whatever (wasn't really listening at this point) and they are like that because Central christian church is not a Baptist church, and they are not strict. They are more contemporary, mainstream, and non-denominational.

But over at my parent's Baptist church, they tell me that I bring disrepect to the Baptist church just because I wanted to get a cool haircut, paint my nails blue, and get a temporary tattoo.

And also to show them that there are Christians out there that are not...

forget it.

I'm sick of this. I don't want to say anymore.
I really don't know what to do or say to them.

I mean, how bad is it to get a J-rock style haircut?
to my dad he's all like, "YOU'RE TRYING TO BECOME PUNKISTA."

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I AM JUST SO MAD RIGHT NOW.

I'M NOT EVEN TRYING TO BECOME ANY LABEL. I JUST LIKE THE HAIRCUT, OKAY? AND IT WILL NOT STAND IN MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD BECAUSE I'M SURE THAT GOD LIKES IT TOO.

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we're used to it. and i personaly don't mind when they stare at me. its when the looks on their faces is of such unchristian hate that i start to get upset. i remember wlaking into a christian youth conferance and everyone looking as though my youth group had done something wrong in bringing a goth with them. of course once they realized that i wasn't a satanist they nicened up a little.

The verse on tattoos was revoked by Jesus' death, as was the rest of Leviticus. See Colossians 2:13-17.

Please quote the verse on crosses.

Not relevant to discussion. PM me and I'll get back to you once I get on a good computer.

wow a haircut leading the person it's on to do bad things... that seems to be more than slightly misplaced blame. i mean last i checked it was the person who chose the path. but for the reccord. i had an eight inch hight mohawk which i used to keep smiked (even in church) it didn't really hinder me too much, except when i had to defend myself from people like your parents who thought it was evil and wrong.

as for the painting of nails? the stuff washes off. blue is no different from any other colour of nail polish.

wow. your parents seriously need to meet me sometime. i bet if i caem up the street they'd start beating me with a cross. or trying to preform an excorsism. it'd just be funny to me to be able to roll up a sleeve and ask which direction my tat points in.

my body, my rules. this shell is a temple of the lord, but he left me in charge of decorating it.

Fundamentalist Baptists.

My parents did it again, this time at the other church we attend (a non-denom contemproary church)

"I don't think those two kids over there are Christian because they have many piercings".

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If my parents saw you, they would say to change your style because that is no longer Christian and it is not pleasing in the eyes of God.