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Published: July 15th, 2008Category: Mac, Miscellanea, Tinkering
Hi Mate,
Here’s a little info on something that happened a few years back in the UK
It was quite funny really. It was during the last Census. Well it’s was discovered that in UK law it only takes a finite number of people to claim they practice a given religion for those beliefs to be recognized by the government as on ‘official religion’. well the shout soon went out, and loads of us thought, ‘hay, lets put Jedi on the form see whats happens’.
Well, lots of us did. Lots of us. so now according the the uk gov, Jedi is a recognized religious practice in the UK.
Yes it was petty, but you got to admit - funny.
glenn
UK Stats
* Christian: 72.0%
* No religion: 14.8%
* Chose not to respond: 7.7%
* Muslim: 3.1%
* Hindu: 1.1%
* Jedi: 0.7%
so i live in brighton in the uk - also the home of aral balkan, seb lee-delisle and niqui merret, so we’re in good company here - which apparently has the highest proportion of ‘jedi’s’ anywhere in the world. this all stems back to the recent uk census in 2001. it was discovered that if a certain percentage - not sure how much, 5, 10% maybe - of the population said they shared a certain religion it could gain official recognition as a minority faith and some wag recognised that with the net at her disposal as a genuinely affective tool in the census for the first time, that she could disseminate a message encouraging people to officially register with the government as a ‘jedi’. thousands of people did it and i’m not sure what percentage of the UK population actually did it but certainly they gave the ‘official minority recognition’ rule a run for its money, and perhaps the creation of this church is a testiment to the success of the enterprise, dunno.