70,000 in Australia say they are of Jedi faith
 

old article - so maybe it was posted before - but I just found it and it made me giggle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2218456.stm

1 word:

Fucking retards.

Whats the percentage for the darkside?

I think a lot of people are doing it for a joke! :Graucho

i was going to sign Jedi at the last census - but then when the census collectors came round my partner and I pretended we didnt live there coz we didnt want the government having all our info

im not sure how I managed to convince them - must have been the old jedi mind-trick :Graucho

the UK too - and it was officially recognized :glugglug

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1589133.stm

That is unless they are force(d) to be with it! :1orglaugh

Somebody needs some sleep, 2 words there :Graucho

hehe, best response so far. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

It was done by loads of Star Wars fans in the last census in an attempt to get it recognised as an offical religion.

It didn't work.

End of story.

Star Wars sucks.

hehe i remember that a few years ago. by word of mouth heaps of people decided to do this to create a new religion. it didnt work.

Not a bad idea for a new religion tell me you wouldn't want to see jar jar hanging from a cross.

You will find the origin of these 70,000 people were not infact Australian's but they were Kiwi's that are trying to invade us.
The Kiwi's are a bit of a weird bunch :1orglaugh

haha i remember that. was pretty funny at the time. although i do agree star wars is shit.

a fake religion without a prophet? How come people turn a philosopy to a religion?
Fucking retards..

damn, my belly aches...that was funny

It was just a huge gag. These people don't seriously consider Jedi a religion. :helpme

good question

Agree with u....

It was something along the lines of.. you need 50k people to actually create a religion and they went ahead and did it.

So, if you ever feel the need to change religion.. good old master Yodi will be there for you! :1orglaugh

Think it was 10k... and although the censor office said
a "significant" amount of people had written it down, they
refused to list it as a religion even though the law says they must.

Nice to hear it worked in the UK, but not here, they just ignored it.

-Ben

oh btw there was a lot of controversy about the religion field in
general last time around.

Turns out they list about 10 different versions of Christianity but
don't provide space for the many others we have in Australia.

-Ben

that's nothing, take a look here

Nerds.

:(

Oh damn! Now i've seen it all...:1orglaugh

these idiots need some pussy.

it was done in an attempt to get it officially recognised, but the government put a stop to it before the census went out

:1orglaugh