Terrence Fugate wrote:

>  Quinceañera are, at their heart, a fertility rite saying 'this girl
> is on the market."
>  The celebration has heavy elements of the Catholic Church with the
> fertility rite sort of buried...
>
>  Piper never comes out and says it, but it is pretty clear his
> universe is mainly comprised of scientific rationalists who are
> atheists, as was he.
>
>  Would a Quinceañera survive without the religious background?

As an atheist fertility rite with Aleister Crowley underpinnings.

Willingness to confront conventional norms is an eternal human
phenomenon.