I only heard this within the last couple of days, but Joan Rivers recently had her arm tattooed with "6M" - for the six million Jews who died during the Holocaust.
If you follow strict Jewish law (which she obviously didn't), tattoos are forbidden; you must leave this world as you entered it.
I am not mentioning this to judge in any way, only as a point of information.
Signor V.
That's interesting, SV. You know I'm not Jewish, but you also know that I worked in the Jewish community for many years and I consider myself close to Judaism. Without Judaism, there's no Catholicism. There's no Christianity at all, for that matter.
Anyway, I wasn't judging Joan either. I've known divorced Catholics who have wormed their way into Church weddings through sham annulments, and I've known a Jew or two who enjoyed a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. Do you follow me?
Big picture and all that. If you're a person of faith, and you do more good than bad in this world, I think the man upstairs will reward you for it (tattoos, divorces and dietary laws aside). But that's just me
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