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Someone gave a kippah to a cat and the comments were purrfectly cringeworthy

A Reddit user named Xavier2k9 asked people to decide whether it was an asshole move to put a kippah – a Jewish skull cap – on a cat.

Here’s the post, from the r/AmITheAsshole subreddit.

The beginning of this story happened over Hanukkah last year. My boyfriend is half Jewish and we were at his family Hanukkah celebration having some wine and latkes and all in all having a great time.

Maybe we had a bit too much wine because when we got home and were drunkenly wrapping holiday gifts, I made a tiny little Yamaka Yarmulke out of wrapping paper and taped it to my cats head and asked him if he was also Jewish because he’s my boyfriend’s cat and my boyfriend is Jewish.

We had a little laugh at the whole thing but never took a photo and never really said anything to anyone, it was just our little joke of something funny we had done when we were drunk.

Flash forward to this past weekend. I’m not sure how it came up but I mentioned the whole cat Yamaka Yarmulke story and one of my friends at the party started telling me off.

She was saying how just because my boyfriend didn’t find that offensive that he doesn’t account for all Jewish people’s feelings. I truly don’t believe that we were being disrespectful, we were simply making a joke that since our cat belonged to our boyfriend’s family before we took him in that he could be half Jewish potentially.

It wasn’t out of a place of disrespect, it was simply 2 drunk people after a Hanukkah party fucking around with our cat. AITA?

Just so you know, Reddit decided that the poster was not an asshole, though it seems that taping anything to a cat’s head is questionable, at best.

Here’s the cat in question, stoically sporting something less controversial.

But it was the puntastic string of replies that really caught our attention, and we just had to share.

Prepare to cringe.

_I_said_good_day_sir

Y T A. Forcing religion on animals should be considered abuse and is wrong. Let the cat choose its own religion. Maybe it’s a CATholic.

JDSchu

For real. Let the cat be Meowslim if he wants to. Or a Purritan.

Allaboutbird

Or a Pussbyterian

sweetwaterfall

Guys, whatever the religion, he’s still culturally Mewish

BriarRose21

He could be a Mewnitarian Mewniversalist

mykologie

Or agpawstic!

PleasureMePrivates

Perhaps he identifies as a Rastafurryan.

BlameItOnTheTitans

Maybe the cat is Hissidic…

taneeners

maybe he worships Cathulu

Eventually, quitstalkingmeffs made this inarguable point.

I’m pretty certain all cats think of themself as god so that’s their religion…now bow to the cat

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The cat nearly ruined this crazily elaborate stunt but ended up making it even better

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