This thread:
http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=61066

should be put in the religion section.

Why is it in the cesspool?

I ask myself that all the time friend :->

This thread:
http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=61066

should be put in the religion section.

Why is it in the cesspool?

favouritism towards abrahamic religions. It's rather a nasty form a racism.

Why is it in the cesspool?

Because it's completely nutty, maybe?

(I didn't put it there.)

Because it's completely nutty, maybe?

(I didn't put it there.)

Yeah, but so is Catholicism.
We should treat all delusional mysticism equally, without favoritism to any particular religion.

http://www.snopes.com/religion/jedi.htm

The 7 August 2001 Australia and 29 April 2001 United Kingdom censuses have afforded pranksters an opportunity to wreak a little mayhem by messing with the official results. E-mailed incitements to list "Jedi" as one's personal religion began appearing in inboxes in March 2001 with the incentive to do so offered as the living out of one's childhood dream of fighting for interstellar justice, light saber in hand.

Truth is, marking down "Jedi" isn't going to change a thing, least of all what officially gets considered a religion. It is not up to the Office of National Statistics to decide such a question. They may be an arm of the government, but it doesn't fall within their province to confer official status (whatever that might be) on a religion any more than it would be up to the Boy Scouts to designate New York City a national wildlife preserve.

The situation for hopeful Jedis in Australia is even more forbidding than it is in the U.K. Not only won't marking "Jedi" in the appropriate box gain official recognition for a non-existent religion, but the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics census program, John Struik, has stated that anyone who falsely provides information on a census faces a $1,000 fine.

Mr. Struik said that a putative religion must demonstrate a formal organizational structure and a belief system to be recognized. "If we get 10,000 Jedis, they will go down as no official religion," he said. They might lose a thousand bucks each as well.
He needs to give it some more thought and get some serious financial backing.

This thread:
http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=61066

should be put in the religion section.

Why is it in the cesspool?

there is no such religion.