UK Atheists Hope to Eliminate Jedi Population

[razing32]

Any time someone mentions they are believers , any kind of believers , as opposed to non-believers the government gives funding to religious schools - ALL religious schools.
I think that's why they take offense.
The Jedian faith is not a simple joke , it's a literal new age type cult - although a mild one.So no , they don't count as non-religious.
You see it as a joke - the government doesn't.That's what it boils down to.

 

[C.S.Strowbridge]

I really hate the people going around saying "don't put Jedi as your religion" In the last census 70% of people identified as Catholic, despite that according to other polls 60% of us identify as non-religious and a greater number don't attend regular worship. Maybe we should tell people not to identify as Catholics?

They are doing that.

They are asking people who are non-religious as non-religious and to not put down Catholic, for example, just because your parents are / were Catholic.

 

[ShadowKatt]

i still can't decide
should i believe there are bacteria in my blood controlling me?

There's flouride in the water and midiclorians in your blood.

IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!!

 

[Space Lion]

CTHULHU WILL RISE AGAIN AND ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO DON'T PUT HIS NAME ON THE CENSUS WILL BE DESTROYED BY HIS AWESOME POWER!!!!! Zaleek T'alek Mayelik Date'er Shooby Wooby Woo!!!!!!

 

[Pholark]

Egad! There's a mass Jedi holocaust afoot?! Avast my fellow believers! TO MY JEDI BUNKER! Everyone is welcome, but you must first mention the secret password which is kept under the utmost protection of the force...

... The password is Ewok.

 

[Pholark]

http://www.churchofjediism.org.uk/training.html
PLEASSSSSSSSE DO THIS WITH ME.

 

[rockoffanddie]

For the record i am a uk based devout atheist and i have no problem with people putting whatever they want for religion on the census, i have contemplated putting all manner of ridiculously geeky stuff for religion myself, "FOR CHAOS" for example.

 

[Spookimitsu]

This thread helped me to properly define ironic. A group of atheists are trying to tell another group that their faith isn't a religion?

also noted - this top shelf trolling "If your religion is of low enough importance to you to that you are willing to put in a religion from 3 good sci-fi films from years ago, and 3 more recent rubbish ones,please consider ticking "No Religion" instead." WOW How could I not see what you did there.

 

[Baldr]

I hate Antijeditism

 

[Aureliano]

This article poses a hilariously wrong-headed argument. If all the guys who ponder, even once, if they could use the Jedi mind trick to convince the big-titted blond in the bar to fellate them don't count as official Jedi unless they wear their robes and lightsaber every day, what about all the Christians who kinda believe in God but do not go to church?

Those are the people who should mark 'no religion' according to the anti-Jedi argument. Not to say this is a bad thing, but then the population suddenly shifts to 90% no religion. Again, that sounds good, but this is clearly not the fault of the Jedi.

Also, religion is stupid and should DEFINITELY be laughed at, preferably derisively, at every opportunity. Who knows? Maybe treating every official Jedi as a weekend warrior will teach them something about the other world religions.

 

[Jegsimmons]

Also, religion is stupid and should DEFINITELY be laughed at, preferably derisively, at every opportunity. Who knows? Maybe treating every official Jedi as a weekend warrior will teach them something about the other world religions.

0/10

 

[Rigs83]

I am not British so I won't be counted but if I was I'd put Dude-ism.

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[eljacko]

Speaking as an atheist, I can understand why people write in Jedi. It's all very funny to be facetious in such a silly, ridiculous manner, and the novelty of it is all very interesting.

That said, as an atheist I also feel that people shouldn't be doing this. This census data is important, and is actually used for things. If the UK government believes there are enough atheists there, then the atheists of the United Kingdom may finally get some much-deserved political representation.

Atheists don't need political representation. Its not a group, its a label given to people who don't follow any kind of religion.

Christians or any religion of any kind should also not have political representation. Keep that crap separate from governmental affairs. Keep it in church were it belongs.

People should all be represented as people.

I'm all for the separation of church and state, but the fact of the matter is that politicians already pander shamelessly to the religious demographics, especially the Christian demographic, I seriously believe it affects legislation. What I'm saying is, I would like atheism to be accommodated by the Christian-centric state.

 

[Eldarion]

Speaking as an atheist, I can understand why people write in Jedi. It's all very funny to be facetious in such a silly, ridiculous manner, and the novelty of it is all very interesting.

That said, as an atheist I also feel that people shouldn't be doing this. This census data is important, and is actually used for things. If the UK government believes there are enough atheists there, then the atheists of the United Kingdom may finally get some much-deserved political representation.

Atheists don't need political representation. Its not a group, its a label given to people who don't follow any kind of religion.

Christians or any religion of any kind should also not have political representation. Keep that crap separate from governmental affairs. Keep it in church were it belongs.

People should all be represented as people.

I'm all for the separation of church and state, but the fact of the matter is that politicians already pander shamelessly to the religious demographics, especially the Christian demographic, I seriously believe it affects legislation. What I'm saying is, I would like atheism to be accommodated by the Christian-centric state.

Its wrong that any religion gets political power and if atheists need specific representation it validates the power Christians hold currently. I know that church influences state anyway, but I won't stand for making it easier for them to take my rights away by giving them an official system for doing so. I already can't get married to a male partner in several states over here.

 

[CptRumGuy]

The only thing that bothers me when I hear about the Jedi religion is that they call the religion "Jedi" in the first place. Isn't Jedi simply a warrior for this unnamed religion? It'd be like catholics saying "my religion is Bishop".

 

[phoenican]

But it does.

It's stuff like this that gives the government an idea of what to do in the local area. This is also the kind of stuff used to justify more religious faith schools.

## Fricken A ##
They can build a Jedi Faith School in my back yard. We could show the holy trilogy, read some scripture from the grand admiral thrawn story and se what it would of been like in the old days by using the "KOTOR" simulator.

I put "Jedi" on my last census, i will change it this time...... to Sith, every jedi walks down the dark path once and a while.

 

[Hugga_Bear]

Why the hell does it matter is what I want to know. If enough people check 'non-religious' will they stop subsidising faith schools and paying for the CoE? Like hell.

It's there so they can know more about demographics so some fucking idiot in an office somewhere can use it to target his business plans which have been consistently shown to be about as successful as a monkey throwing darts at a wall in order to try and make us all vote tory. Or labour. Or whoever the hell gets the information next.

I really don't like pointless questions, if people want to give a stupid answer to a stupid question, more power them.

 

[likalaruku]

Pft, I'm an athiest & not even a big Star Wars fan & I'd totally put Jedi down for the census if I could get away with it.

 

[Evil Smurf]

It seems definitive, Atheists can't take a joke.

Jedi ftw.

As Darth Vader once said "their lack of faith is disturbing" (SIC)