UK Census next month Jedi promotion

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Ok It's that time of the decade again, UK Census time, the 27th of March.
Just wanted to raise awareness among the Jedi faithful. Please remember to keep the numbers up. Currently over 390,000 UK Jedi recognised by the Government, more than quite a few other international religions.
Hopefully that number can be increased to show the the faith is not dying.
Remember also that registering as Jedi is accepted as a vote for being atheist, as part of an argument that people with religions are given special treatment but those without a named religion that still have views and feelings are excluded, this is a way of protesting that fact.
We have quite a way to go before surpassing Christianity (70% population) but we are not too far away from overtaking Muslim numbers. But i'm guessing more Muslims will be here since 2001, then again the Jedi elders will have more "younglings". Interesting will it be.
 
UK has a Census which is required by law for the whole population to complete and return. So the Government has a record of the nations people and some details about them. Religion is one of the questions, though it is the only question I believe that by law you don't have to answer, but may as well use it to take advantage.
 
Yes it has been officially been a religion since the last census in 2001. Only 10,000 people were needed to make it official, but over 390,000 people said they were Jedi to the Government. I was one of them.
 
G.T.Ace
I don't quite get the Jedi stuff, is there really a "Jedi religion" in the UK?
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It's not a serious or organised religion, a number of people entered it as their official religion as a joke on the last UK Census 10 years ago. As a result, the UK Government has to consider it an official religion.

It's a bit of a joke really, but an amusing one.
 
Not just the UK,
Australia recorded 70,000 in 2001.
Canada 21,000 in 2001
New Zealand 53,000 in 2001

Is the Census just a British Empire thing or is there a similar thing in other countries?
How many Jedi are there in the homeland of USA? Or is that not a freedom allowed to be expressed?
 
Work or work not, there is no holiday.
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Everyone is different, and this does not represent me, but here is a Jedi on the news, showing an apology from the government Job Centre staff after kicking him out of the building for not taking his hoodie down. This must be why the Tesco store near me removed it's window notice banning all hoods up hoodies from the store.
 
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TheCracker
May 4th (be with you).
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For that joke to work, it really should be May the 4th (be with you).

I don't know what to do about the census. Last time, I was underage, this time I'll be off travelling... I hear there's a fine for not completing it too...
 
I figured Australia would go for Sith, being a bunch of soft convicts now that want to be evil again. And being on the wrong side of the planet has to build some resentment.
 
Azuremen
I figured Australia would go for Sith, being a bunch of soft convicts now that want to be evil again. And being on the wrong side of the planet has to build some resentment.
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I seriously beg the differ
 
What I find interesting, and what the video I linked to shows, is what happens to an early proto-religion like the Jedi faith. The forming of a church and then rules and principles to abide by, and if you don't you're not a true Jedi. This is just like very old established real religions. I find it scary. And it will inevitably lead to wars involving light sabres in the future.
Why do people insist on rule making? Why can't they just believe in something for themselves, a shared affinity of the Jedi way and take messages from it as individuals and "do what you think is best" as Obi-Wan would say.
Even in these early days as a Jedi there is an "official" church speaking on all Jedi's behalf and it could be total BS I disagree with. Argh I hate them! I'll strike them down.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are multiple Sith recordings on the 2011 Census. And once established their numbers will grow. It won't just be a Master and his apprentice. It will be a whole legion. The poor Jedi church, only now at the end, do they finally understand the true power of the Dark side.
 
I was a Jedi in the last census but this time around I'm unable to represent because I'm not living in the UK.
Both of my great grandparents became Jedi after my dad took the liberty of filling in their form for the last census. I don't think they minded as they were 90+ years old.
By the time the next one comes around I'll have my own kids be Jedi too, if I'm in the UK that is.

By the way blaaah^ there can only be two sith at any one time, I doubt they'll be admit to breaking this rule!
 
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I will seriously laugh if Sith becomes an officially recognised religion in the UK 2011 census.
 
I've a good mind to make it happen.
Shem, I thought the "only 2" rule was after the great wars when the Sith got destroyed, their used to be whole armies of Sith.
Will have to check on that.


They shall join us or die, my master.

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here is a bit of a read and half, the Sith History. From Wookiepedia, love it.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sith
Dark Jedi is always an option, you can still be a Jedi but just be Dark. Simple.
 
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So what privileges have those who've announced their Jedi faith actually received through its recent legal recognition?

If none, how does a 'jocular' religion become a 'serious' one that is invested with all the legal exemptions afforded to the Cathloic Church and bloody Scientology?

I somehow hope that, if enough people do this, it will make so much the mockery of the official recognition and concessions offered to religions (such as the church of Scientology and other undeserving, evil and mentally unstable groups) that the government will start tightening it's regulations in the area.

Definitely going Sith for the Australian census.
 
Which as I have mentioned before why Atheist people are putting Jedi rather than not choosing a religion, because our society holds those with religious beliefs more important than those with none.
An example of the Jedi faith having an effect at national level is the Job Centre (a UK government department part of the DHSS) which shown in the video I linked had to apologise to a Jedi after making him leave the centre for failing to remove his hood.
I don't really understand that though as it was said hood and helmets were not allowed for security reasons, if legitimate that overrules any religious beliefs.
So no apology should have been given. Unless I guess the no hood/helmet rule was in contradiction to allowing Muslim head coverings. Not enough detail is given.
There is no difference between a joke religion and a serious established religion in the law I think, though it maybe easier to prove you have special rules if they already exist in printed from or well known and quoted by a church. You are entitled to make up your own beliefs and philosophical opinions, even if nobody else shares them. But it takes 10,000 for a government to actually bother recording it as a known religion.
I could go into any serious government office department and insist for my own personal reasons I have to say the word "light-sabre" at every other word and finish all my sentences with the phrase "may the force be with you." And although this would waste a lot of official's time and the waiting public's, I would be in my rights to do so. I think. But I don't fully understand it, as I could insist on reciting the whole episode of A New Hope word for word before confirming my name to anyone. Where does a line get drawn for religious/philosophical tolerance? Just doesn't make sense.
For example I have been discussing the prohibition of consuming alcohol under some religions. But at what point should those rules just be dismissed? I can't think of a realistic example but lets say there was a situation where a Muslim gets arrested and taken to custody and for some reason there is no water supply, the only drinks on offer are cans of low alcohol beer. Should our law say the Muslim has to drink it or die as it's too much effort to send out especially for a non alcoholic drink? the water supply will be back on again in the evening so the beer will do until then. (completely rubbish example forgive me).
Anything that costs the taxpayer money or wastes time should be not be allowed to happen under religious reasons.
 
The next time I'm going to be in the UK for the census I'm going to state that I'm F L G, a religion that exists in China but is outlawed for no apparent reason. (That's why I can only state the initials here for fear of being questioned by police/having this web site blocked)
 

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