April 21, 2009
Jedi coppers, wookie soldiers
Who would have thunk it?
In Britain a growing number of people are declaring themselves to be adherents of the Jedi faith.
About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland the figure was a reported 14,000.
This made news because eight Scottish police officers declared themselves to be Jedi.
I don't know if this makes it an organized religion.
Last year, brothers Barney and Daniel Jones founded the UK Church of the Jedi - which offered sermons on the Force, light sabre training, and meditation techniques.
"Light sabre training?" Sign me up.
Not to be outdone, the nation of Iran is apparently raising an army of Wookies.
Crossposted on Yourish.
Posted by SoccerDad at April 21, 2009 6:29 AM
Hezbollah in passive voice
A cynical and mistrusted offer
Wapo: peace process succeeding because of the great work of the administration
Council speak 100610
Nyt: peace process failing despite the great work of the administration
Do we have enough regulations yet?
Iranian General: "US, Mossad played roles in 9/11 event"
Absolving arafat, ten years later
Rahm can't run? antisemites!
The politics of peace
Very cool - though I suspect many/most of those 390K are not all that serious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon
But among those who do mean it, I wonder if there is a subset of "Old Testament" Jedis who base their beliefs solely on the original trilogy, and would consider the prequel trilogy's innovations - i.e., midichlorians - to be heresy. Personally, I'd be one of those types.
Posted by: Elie at April 21, 2009 11:58 AM