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<blockquote data-quote="rich1011" data-source="post: 9080271" data-attributes="member: 86961"><p><a href="http://unreasonablefaith.com/2009/04/18/the-jedi-religion/" target="_blank">The Jedi Religion | Unreasonable Faith</a></p><p></p><p>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:</p><p></p><p>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….</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.”</p><p></p><p>And here’s the punchline:</p><p></p><p>The Office for National Statistics did not recognise it as a separate category, and incorporated followers of Jedi with atheists.</p><p></p><p>Not quite the numbers boost we were looking for, eh?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rich1011, post: 9080271, member: 86961"] [url=http://unreasonablefaith.com/2009/04/18/the-jedi-religion/]The Jedi Religion | Unreasonable Faith[/url] 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? [/QUOTE]
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