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Zahid
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Britain's latest religion

#945903 - 10/09/02 01:57 PM (22 years, 6 months ago)

The recently completed UK Census has discovered a new religion: Jedi Knights.

This is the official line (from the Home Office): "the Census does not provide recognition to any religion in the official statistics nor does it attempt to define religion. The list that you can see ... is merely a list of possible answers that people have been known to put in the box marked religion. As such, Jedi Knight is not officially recognised as a religion."

Code 896 is used to classify Jedi Knights.

A full list of religions in the UK (Look at page 18):
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census...ction5part3.pdf

More here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/22113.html

Geeky...

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Sclorch
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Re: Britain's latest religion

[Re: Zahid]
#946248 - 10/09/02 04:06 PM (22 years, 6 months ago)

Heard that before... still funny/awesome. :laugh:

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NiamhNyx
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Re: Britain's latest religion

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#946518 - 10/09/02 05:38 PM (22 years, 6 months ago)

I remember when the census came out and everyone was putting jedi knight as thier religion to see if they could get enough numbers to make it an official religion:D My local radio station here in vancouver canada was trying the same thing when our census came out. It was great.

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CleverName
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Re: Britain's latest religion

[Re: NiamhNyx]
#946633 - 10/09/02 06:13 PM (22 years, 6 months ago)

jedi mind tricks :wink:

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Swami
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Re: Britain's latest religion

[Re: Zahid]
#946759 - 10/09/02 06:38 PM (22 years, 6 months ago)

It's no wackier than any other religion.

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Xlea321
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Re: Britain's latest religion

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#948299 - 10/10/02 03:58 AM (22 years, 6 months ago)

Except that it isn't a religion.

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Grav

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Re: Britain's latest religion

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#948360 - 10/10/02 04:33 AM (22 years, 6 months ago)

whats a religion?

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Zahid
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Re: Britain's latest religion

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#950545 - 10/10/02 05:46 PM (22 years, 6 months ago)

That's what I would like to know.

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infidelGOD
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Re: Britain's latest religion

[Re: Zahid]
#951535 - 10/10/02 11:09 PM (22 years, 6 months ago)

I wanna create my own religion.

Rule #1: question everything.
we could go from there.

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Anonymous

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[Re: Zahid]
#951622 - 10/11/02 12:26 AM (22 years, 6 months ago)

They have cooler Robes. - OoD

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LordPeter
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Re: Britain's latest religion

[Re: Zahid]
#952367 - 10/11/02 06:59 AM (22 years, 6 months ago)

Yeah, this occured from an email which circulated around our country just before our census. It was just a bit of fun really, but I guess putting Jedi Knight is a bit more interesting than boring Islam, Christianity, blar blar blar etc.

The same circulation happened in Austraia, but the government threatened to fine anyone $1,000 who put that down as their religion as it would have been construed as being false information. Hmmm.

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