My thoughts are...what an ass!

That's what you get in god crazy america. Try across the pond where we are all godless heathens, and a few even more godless pirates. arrrr

At "nice pics"--since he didn't answer your question, it should have been over. Depending on how you want to treat him you could come back with "prayers don't work," or "idiots don't get to see my tattoo" or "no amount of prayers will let you see that whole tattoo" or maybe "god doesn't exist"

Ive been on fb dating for a couple months now.. anyone who messaged me turned out to be a bible thumper except for one..

Stupid. Find YOUR kind.

Unfortunately, it just seems to be part of the friggin process we have to go through now.

At least you have a profile for him to ignore. This is todays nonsense. Just 2 nice pics and the mandatory bits filled in.

Me - Hello Joanne, you look lovely. x
Her - Hi thankyou x
Me - Hi and your welcome.
Your profile is a little sparse so can tell me what you like to do in your spare time Joanne? x

Then nothing and once again ghosted

I agree you do have nice pics. Oh wait you meant on the theist, if they are being them and you're being you. It really shouldn't matter which sky wizard if any you are sending prayers to.

Generally, I do not put much value on a conversation that happens out of the blue, it is much more likely that if you are going to click with someone, you have already had conversations about different issues that are not related to any form of direct relationship. A conversation like that, that comes out of the blue, holds very little weight, in my regard for it. So generally speaking, I am not very hesitant to tell someone like that to fuck off. I get IMs all the time on my Facebook account, and if I have not seen them in a conversation or talked to them before, they generally get ignored, I do not even respond to their first message. (Given that I have 3750+ friends on there, it is not practical anyway). Those who participate in the community forum are much better suited, proven, and one might even say have a pedigree for common ideas . . . . that is how I see it anyway.

Can I please see your whole tattoo.

It's not just the religious. Maybe it's just guys. (Not trying to be mean).
I've gotten generic messages. "I read your profile, I think we have a lot in common." Or just "Hey there, I think we are compatible, want to talk?"
Then I read their profile and think WTF did they think we had in common?
I'll reply, "What exactly was it about my profile that you found interesting?"
The response is generally, again, very generic. I flat out asked one guy if he just sends out the same message to everyone and hopes for some nibbles. Of course he wrote back that I was an angry bitch who needed to get laid.
I'm old and suspect that there are few fellows my age on sites so it is possible that someone is paid to send out generic messages to try to encourage women to buy the packages. Could be I'm just jaded.

One of the many reasons why I stay off of dating sites.

Hmmm...well, I typically start off with "Heya! Nice profile and pics", unless the profile is crap. With you're profile, I would probably say something like "Heya! Nice pics - profile was meh. Lots of generic adjectives that don't really say much about you as a person. How about you tell me something specific about you?" That's just how I roll though...

Had this conversation been between him and me, I think it would have turned out a little differently (well it wouldn't have involved a tattoo because I don't have one--but we can pretend).

When it got to the "I see you are a Christian" part. I would have said "I am an atheist."
And, I rather think his response would have been: "be gone with you Satan."

With what he seemed to be going for, what would lack of religion matter? Do you want to share the special meaning of the tattoo?