This photo has been circulating around the ‘Net for a year or more, but I first saw it last year on Joey Devilla’s site. It’s of a rather large lower back tattoo, or “tramp stamp”, of the apostle Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthian:13.) While I’m certainly open to self expression and the rights of young women who choose to do this sort of thing to themselves, I have to say that this one seems, at least to me, way over the top. But it’s a Bible verse, you say? I’m sorry; this is just wrong on so many levels…

Of course, it immediately brings to mind two memorably funny scenes from The Wedding Crashers, the first when Vince Vaughn’s character says, upon spotting a tramp stamp at the wedding,  “Tattoo on the lower back… Might as well be a bullseye,” and the second when Vince Vaughn’s and Owen Wilson’s characters are placing bets on whether the reading at the wedding will be First Corinthians or Colossians 3:12.

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