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Jedi the 4th religion

yankinlk · 2003-02-13 18:31:14

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-12245606,00.html FORCE WITH LOTS OF YOU Almost 400,000 people in the UK say they are Jedis by religion - making it the fourth largest "faith" in Britain. Seven people in every thousand in England and Wales gave their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census. The Jedi 'religion' was…

13-02-2003 6:31pm

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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-12245606,00.html

FORCE WITH LOTS OF YOU

Almost 400,000 people in the UK say they are Jedis by religion - making it the fourth largest "faith" in Britain.

Seven people in every thousand in England and Wales gave their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census.

The Jedi 'religion' was born in the Star Wars movies.

Jedi knights Luke Sywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi have special strengths and powers allowing them levitate and move objects with 'The Force".

The census details were revealed by the Office for National Statistics.

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The Census form's question on religion - the only question where a response was not compulsory - offered a series of tick-boxes for the major religions in the UK.

There were tick boxes for religions such as Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh; a tick-box for 'none' and a free space to write in 'any other religion'.

Some 390,000 people in England and Wales listed Jedi as their religion under the category "other".

Officials decided not to classify it as a separate faith and put it with people who said they were atheists.

Registrar General for England and Wales Len Cook said: "We have put them among the 7.7 million people who said they had no religion.

"I suspect this was a decision which will not be challenged greatly.

"I think it was not a particularly serious answer by someone who had a good idea but I think it encouraged people to fill in their census forms.

"That can only be a good thing."

Campaign

It is thought that an internet campaign was behind the number of Jedi responses.

A campaign on the internet had wrongly claimed that Jedi would receive official government recognition as a religion if enough people quoted it on their Census forms.

The Jedi response was most popular in Brighton and Hove, with 2.6% of Census respondents quoting it, followed by Oxford at 2%, Wandsworth and Cambridge each with 1.9%, and Southampton and Lambeth in London each with 1.8%.

But the Jedi religion was least popular in Easington, on the north-east coast of England between Sunderland and Hartlepool, where it was quoted by only 0.16% of respondents.

Just over 37 million people (72%) gave their religion as Christian.

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#2 13-02-2003 6:42pm

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It can't possibly be a religeon. IT'S A FILM!!!!! **** sake....

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#3 13-02-2003 6:51pm

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Screwing with census forms in ireland is illegal afaik...they treid to do here

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#4 13-02-2003 7:11pm

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Sad, sad people

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#5 13-02-2003 7:35pm

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heh! good stuff. 0.7% of the UK!

I am one of those saddos and I wouldn't say it is screwing with the census form. They know where I live, I await their claim!

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#6 13-02-2003 7:35pm

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Sad?

Because they base their faith on a film rather than a book?

If people want to base thier religion on a work of fiction that features inelegant morality tales and heros performing ridiculous superhuman feats a long time ago , thats fine.

Just as long as you let other people base thier religon on Star Wars

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#7 13-02-2003 8:09pm

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Lee I think all religions are sad, just that this one takes the biscuit

*edit except budhism. that's cool

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#8 13-02-2003 8:17pm

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see also http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=83398

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#9 13-02-2003 11:59pm

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Originally posted by Drunk pirate
It can't possibly be a religeon. IT'S A FILM!!!!! **** sake....

Still makes more sense than Scientology (The Credit Card Religion™).

Besides I saw that Jesus bloke in a movie only last week. There was a man whose eyes were full of hate but that was OK because the big boat sank and he got to ride in a big chariot race and meet Jesus who gave him a big glass of water. So that's all right then.

(incidentally, I am NOT "moviedude")

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#10 14-02-2003 12:12am

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I thought dogma was made more sence meself..

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#11 14-02-2003 1:19am

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I think I'll be a Jedi too

It has as much credibility as any other religion

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#12 14-02-2003 8:38am

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#13 14-02-2003 8:52am

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i put it down, but i thought it meant Just Entertaining Different Ideas

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#14 14-02-2003 10:22am

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Originally posted by Dustaz
Sad?

Because they base their faith on a film rather than a book?

If people want to base thier religion on a work of fiction that features inelegant morality tales and heros performing ridiculous superhuman feats a long time ago , thats fine.

Just as long as you let other people base thier religon on Star Wars

Best Answer ever tm

kdjac

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