There are a number of variaties of Christianity that continue to practice the wearing of hats in church service, the most familiar of these to Americans might be Black American charismatics - although the practice of men wearing hats as well as women is somewhat less widespread. I'm not entirely sure on the practice of clergy wearing caps in the Catholic church, though it might have something to do with the practice of Tonsure. I'd be very interested in hearing from someone who knew as well.
mkarol: Given that the topic is specifically is religious doctrine regarding D&D, I could hardly think of a more potentially explosive topic to get back to. In fact, you really hit the heart of what was in the back of my post, when you said, 'Who knew that religion and RP had so many parallels', but I felt that to be such an explosive assertion that I felt the need to heavily disguise it and feel no need to elaborate on it now. Therefore I will risk rambling around the topic and not on it a little further.
You've sorta peaked my couriousity. I don't claim to be anything like a professional historian, but the blurb above is I would have thought very uncontriversial (whether or not it is true) - simply because the historical record on the man Jesus of Navereth is so incredibly thin. Nonetheless, what documents exist on him - his execution record, and the various purported second and third person accounts would seem to back the above statements which you will note say very little about what he actually did. And what little I know of the Judiac history at the time seems to suggest that Judiac mystery sects were not at all uncommon in the years leading up to the birth of Christianity and some of what he purportedly said and taught was certainly rolling around in the back Judiac thought at the time. So, I really would like to see a similarly brief historical summary that you feel is less biased and more accurate.
On topic, yes that does sound like fun, and I greatly enjoyed the articles in dragon in which historical figures were given D&D stats.
