Tattoos actually aren't part of pagan culture. Sure some of them had/have them but they aren't really tied to the religion. Also the irony of calling people with tattoos mentally ill while believing in an invisible man is the sky is just yeah.
You’re right in the sense that even most pagan cultures never used tattoos. But the few tattoos that did exist in history were pretty much always pagan religious symbols.
Calling someone who believes in God mentally ill when that’s something like 99.99% of humans throughout history have done is pretty funny. If mental illness is deviance from widely accepted societal norms then atheism is mental illness.
Oooo time for history my favorite. The earliest known tattoos have been around since the 4th millennium approximately 3370-3100 BCE. However the term pagan from the Latin paganus meaning country-dweller was invented in the 4th century by Christians as a VERY broad term encompassing anyone who didn't believe in an abrahamic religion. So most "pagan" symbols and culture just aren't Christian symbols and could be from thousands of other religions. Sidenote you should really look into pagan influence in Christianity. Now maybe religion as a whole isn't a mental illness but blind unquestionable faith in an unprovable deity while said deity is used as an excuse for slavery, inequality, war, genocide and abuse is absolutely a mental illness. Also your 99.99 percent belief in God throughout history is wildly off. Homo sapiens EVOLVED approximately 300,000 years ago in Africa and developed into modern humans approximately 125,000 years ago. And while they may have practiced some form of religion. Monotheism or the believe in one god started around 3400 years ago. In modern times approximately 83-86% of people believe in God or a higher power but that number skews depending on where and how the question is asked. In the United States approximately 81% of people believe in God a number which has been on the decline. And lastly Atheism is defined as a lack of belief in God or gods. So I'd like you to explain how that's a mental illness
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u/Same-Information-330 1d ago
Why do people say this is mental illness? It's simple stupidity.