Originally Posted by baddog

Why is it whenever I tell you something you don't know, I am the one that is wrong?

Leviticus 19:28, ?You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.?

The general principal is that in the Jewish faith, the body belongs to god, and a person is simply borrowing it until s/he returns it in heaven. A person violating this law was historically unable to be buried in a Jewish graveyard.

This decree has become more political since WW2. During the holocaust, Nazis tattooed numbers and letters on prisoners, knowingly violating Jewish code.