On Jul 29, 4:13 am, Nina Baltes <chaotro...@gmx.de> wrote:
NB> Well in that case, you're screwed (haha! I kill myself!)
anyway.
http://www.troparion.com/askfather.htm
>
NB> "Our purpose is not to attract attention of others by making
radical
NB> statements with our bodies for our personal vanity, but rather to
NB> attract the grace of the Holy Spirit and to lead others to Christ
NB> through our Christian example.
> (...)
NB> We are not to transform ourselves according to the latest whims
and fads
NB> of society but rather conform and abide by the will of God.
NB> (...)
NB> Rather than making "artistic expressions" with our bodies, let us
make
NB> an _expression of faith by maintaining our bodies, pure, spotless
and
NB> undefiled so that we may "be an example of the believers, in word,
in
NB> conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity" (I Timothy 4:
12).!"
Killjoy. Next you'll say Jews shouldn't get piercings.
Kavin