The question Are Pastafarians required to always be dressed as a Pirate when discussing their religion? was closed as off-topic. What I can gather from the comments on the question and the meta discussion here is that there is a general feeling that questions about practice may not be appropriate for the site, but I don't find any guidelines in the help or on meta for what the scope is.
At what point is a question out of scope as being too centered around 'practice'?
I originally wrote this as comments but now I think it's probably better as an answer.
The issue with most questions about practice of a religion is that they deal often more with the doctrine than with the myth and we agreed early on to stay away from the doctrine:
the following are off-topic (including but not limited to, and subject to change):
[...]
doctrinal questions
Where the limit between doctrine and myth goes is sometimes difficult to pinpoint (particularly in the case of religion rites) but in your case you made it explicitly about the doctrine by the phrasing you used ('is it required'). See C.M.Weimer's comment for a counter-example of something that would be about rites and on-topic.
The fact that you didn't find any guidelines on the help or on meta is not that surprising as our site is still very young and your question is basically the first one to test that particular limit so we never felt the need to draw that particular line in the sand before.
Just to elaborate on plannapus' argument:
What we want to avoid are situations like the following:
In my meta post responding to fredsbend's proposed rule, I told him not to to create specific criteria to identify questions like yours (i.e. "all questions discuss a specific text"). There are a few other examples of people posting here instead of on their dedicated religion site, but not to the point where we could create a specific criteria for identifying these questions/answers. We don't have enough data to know what form these questions are going to take.
However, I think we can all agree that your question fits the definition of "asking a religion question that should be asked on the [religion x] Stack Exchange and not on Mythology." As such, your question should remain closed.
I'm sorry that we don't have a clearer reason, but that the downside of participating in a beta site. In a year we'll be able to explain exactly why that post was closed.
