Thoughts please!!
2006-11-16 01:48:50 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
is their holy day may the fourth
2006-11-16 01:51:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it has been officially recognised as a religion since the Sensus resulted in enough people answering JEDI as the name of their religion.
It's official: "Jedi Knight" is ON the list of religions for the 2001 UK census.
A campaign to get people to write the entry on their census forms has succeeded in the term being included on the list of religions, alongside Church of England, Roman Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu.
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.
2006-11-16 01:54:46 · answer #2 · answered by dempsey_rose 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as I can tell, people calling for Jedi to be recognised as Religion would be far more satisfied by the scrapping of the idea of Recognised Religion altogether than they would by the addition of Jedi to the list.
2006-11-16 02:01:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no "official recognition" of religions in the UK.
This official Census page explains the real situation:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=297
It says:
"A campaign on the internet claimed - wrongly - that Jedi, the belief system at the heart of the Star Wars films, would receive official government recognition as a religion if enough people quoted it on their Census forms."
See also:
http://www.snopes.com/religion/jedi.htm
2006-11-16 02:35:57 · answer #4 · answered by dannyno 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this concept of getting the Jedi made into a real religion has already been tried....sveral attempt were made during the last countrywide consensus back in the early naughties....it failed...besides why create a religion which clearly does not work?
2006-11-16 01:51:36 · answer #5 · answered by michael s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It already is in the UK as the requisite number of people put it down on the last census.
2006-11-16 01:53:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand why people take a movie so seriously. Hollywood can create anything so do we embrace them all?
2006-11-16 01:51:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just think it's daft. These people do realise it's just a film don't they?
Of course Star Trek is real ...
2006-11-16 02:02:51 · answer #8 · answered by nettyone2003 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't see any problem with it. It is a valid philosophy like any other.
2006-11-16 03:14:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hope no one is on the dark side.
2006-11-16 01:55:12 · answer #10 · answered by danicolegirl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋