During the last census in the UK, many people stated they were of 'jedi' religion. Was this stupid? 11 Articles

by Scott Heritage

Around the time of the last census was conducted in the United Kingdom there was a popular Internet campaign that said that if over a certain amount of people stated their religion was Jedi, that it would become an officia...read more

by Todd Pheifer

I often tell people that nothing in the world surprises me anymore. I may not like certain things that happen, but my experience is that humanity is pretty much capable of anything. Therefore, the fact that a number of p...read more

by Linda Paul

During the early part of 2001, this email was circulating around the web, primarily in England, New Zealand and Australia. "As some of you may know there is a census coming around in the near future. For those who don'...read more

by The Dormouse

Before we go on, I wasn't one of them. There's a backlash in the UK at present over something called "The Nanny State". Many people perceive the current government to be over controlling, and to have a desi...read more

by Dan Gilfeather

Ok, i put my hands up. I did put my religion down as Jedi on the 2001 census (it was the census in Scotland, not Britain). I won't tell you my Jedi name, thats between me and Yoda. Besides, you never know if the Empir...read more

by Tabitha Hergest

There is a saying - you are only young once, but you can be immature as long as you like. Then again, you can be immature responsibly, or you can be immature irresponsibly. Personally, I choose the former, because whil...read more

by Tom Duncan

Well it was pretty stupid. Although a minority of people might have done it to protest at being forced to state their religion, the majority did it for a different reason. They did it because they believed that if 10,000 p...read more

by The Bard

How can it be stupid to say you are of the Jedi religion for the Jedi way is the way of balance! In the World today a lot of people follow a path of Buddhism of which there are many paths. Perhaps if the way of the Jed...read more

by Matthew Hunt

Stating ones religion as Jedi isn't "stupid", it's what we used to call, in this country, a "joke". Okay, so we all know that the current Government only approves of jokes if they poke fun at white, straight, English peopl...read more

by Minh Phuong Nguyen

The "jedi" religion makes perfect sense for those people who want the government to lay off their citizens' business. Jedi brings to mind Star Wars and ideas of the "force" and "the force be with you." Jedi is actually c...read more

by Richie Caldicott

I honestly don't see that people declaring their religion as being "Jedi" on a census form actually achieved anything other than a laugh in the grand scheme of things. However it did serve one purpose, that of telling t...read more