Jedi an official UK religion?

[jonathandupont at hotmail.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., John Walton <john at w...> wrote:
> jonathandupont at h... 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
> ____________________________________________
> 

Ah good. Maybe there is hope for this world after all.