from a religion discussion

[tanaise]

The point is not how you worship. You can worship by shaving your cat and
sponge painting a farm animal border on him with Martha Stewart stencils.
However, if you start saying that shaving and painting cats is The Way It Is
And Always Has Been Done because some random Irish fisherman said so, then you
should be to be able to prove it, or at least find sources that support you.
And if you have borrowed the shaved cat ritual from the Celian Tradition, and
combine it with a Church of Wayne ritual that involves chocolate bodypaint, you
can't go around claiming that it's a traditional Church of Wayne ritual and
that you are pure CoW. (wow, that's an unfortunate acronym.) It's not the
borrowing, it's the...plagarising that I think [person] is objecting to. If you
borrow something, know where it came from, or at the least where you got it
from, and admit it. If you make something up, admit that.
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Actually, we're more likely to Nair the cat than shave him, so we don't
stencil. He's a tabby, and he's got these really distinct markings on him, so
he'd look great if we did him like a burnt-out scarf. But we can get away with
this because we're Eclectic Celian, not Orthodox.