Kansas City Faith Blogger Preaches Against 'Tomahawk Chop' Cultural Appropriation

We're faithful readers of Bill's blog and this latest meditation might inspire objections form devoted followers of Kansas City's favorite pro-team . . . Check-it . . . 

Raised the question of when it's proper to "borrow" practices and beliefs from religions not your own and when such borrowing becomes what's become known as "cultural appropriation," which, for instance, is what happens whenever the badly named Kansas City Chiefs play and their fans cheer by using the tomahawk chop. Area Indigenous people have been trying to get that obvious and distasteful cultural appropriation stopped, but so far without success.

She insisted that borrowing from other religions can be bad, good or indifferent, but when it's done it must not be cultural appropriation. Rather, she said, it should be done with a deep understanding of the practice or belief and with the assent or permission of the people to whom that practice or belief originally belonged.

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Faith Matters Blog: When is it all right to borrow others' religious practices?