[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Jedi an official UK religion?

[John Walton]

jonathandupont at hotmail.com wrote:

> Sorry to be the bearer of bad news - but the census people just
> ignored all the Jedi religion things (which was of course stupid
> as 'Jedi' isn't even a religion in Star Wars - its like putting down
> Auror or something... sorry, partially Star Wars fan taking over).
> They also complained about it a lot, and I heard quite a lot of
> threatening talk about fraud, and wasting the government's time.
> 
> Basically whenever they saw "Jedi" put down, they just didn't mark a
> religion for that person. Which seems awfully undemocratic to me.

Au contraire!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1589000/1589133.stm

says, among other things, "It's official: "Jedi Knight" is ON the list of
religions for the 2001 UK census...Sufficient numbers of people wrote the
entry in for it to be allocated its own code for the census processing team
to use.

But officials from the Office of National Statistics are keen to point out
that just because Jedi Knight has been given its own code, that does not
confer on it the status of official recognition."

Hurrah for free thinking!

--John
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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are
feeling sensible." -W. H. Auden

John Walton -- john at walton.vu
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