The thread on Dressing Up and Playing Soldiers made me think of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), and reminded me of a question I wanted to ask. A while back, I interviewed a rather strange security clearance applicant who was a member of SCA, and I asked her all about it because I was interested, and because I thought it would be a nice, harmless topic of discussion to break the ice. Later, I learned that one of the applicants had complained that I had asked questions about the applicant's religion. I couldn't remember asking any religious questions at all since that's not the sort of thing I'm allowed to ask. The only possibility I could imagine is that the woman deemed the SCA to be a "religion." Is that the case?
I thought of SCA as a sort of "living history" organization, dedicated to the representation of life as it was in the Middle Ages. Some SCAdians I've encountered seem to take their membership a little too seriously, but is that the essence of the organization, that it's a religious thing rather than a historical study?
I mean no offense to anyone who belongs to SCA. I've thoroughly enjoyed the SCA presentations I've seen, and I've learned a lot from them.
-Joe Offer-