But some religions handle it a lot better than others, for example Buddism has Hindu, Chinese and Japanese sects and they all get along. Not like Hebrews and Moslems that can't share the same sacred places. I'd hate to have Poser Purists and Byrce Purists battling bytes and projecting pixels over keeping the images from being contaminated

I wasn't thinking of being a Poser purist in the sense of only using Poser. I always thought a purist, in the context of CG, was someone who wanted their picture to look right when it was rendered without having to touch it up afterward. I guess I assumed global changes like filters were OK, so long as there were no area selections or brush strokes involved. I remember switching from the P4 renderer to the firefly and being frustrated that I couldn't get my skydome to work. So rather than manually composite it in, I rendered it in the P4 renderer, mapped it to the smartbg prop and rerendered it in Firefly. Still made me mad though because I couldn't animate the camera with that method, even though I hadn't planned to.

Poser is just one of many tools to create art.

Whatever it takes to get that final fantastic result you were looking for is all that matters.