The Jedi Religion | Unreasonable Faith
Eight police officers and two staff in Scotland’s largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in a voluntary diversity form. I hoped they were joking, but that doesn’t seem to be the case:
About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland the figure was a reported 14,000….
Last year, brothers Barney and Daniel Jones founded the UK Church of the Jedi – which offered sermons on the Force, light sabre training, and meditation techniques.
According to Wikipedia, “the real-world Jedi assert the existence of the Force, and advocate adherence to the Jedi code. According to recent censuses in some English-speaking countries, over 500,000 people declared their religion as Jedi, and a few Jedi churches exist around the world.”
And here’s the punchline:
The Office for National Statistics did not recognise it as a separate category, and incorporated followers of Jedi with atheists.
Not quite the numbers boost we were looking for, eh?
Eight police officers and two staff in Scotland’s largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in a voluntary diversity form. I hoped they were joking, but that doesn’t seem to be the case:
About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland the figure was a reported 14,000….
Last year, brothers Barney and Daniel Jones founded the UK Church of the Jedi – which offered sermons on the Force, light sabre training, and meditation techniques.
According to Wikipedia, “the real-world Jedi assert the existence of the Force, and advocate adherence to the Jedi code. According to recent censuses in some English-speaking countries, over 500,000 people declared their religion as Jedi, and a few Jedi churches exist around the world.”
And here’s the punchline:
The Office for National Statistics did not recognise it as a separate category, and incorporated followers of Jedi with atheists.
Not quite the numbers boost we were looking for, eh?
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