Jedi Knight Now (Not) Officially a Religion

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 9, 2001 @04:11PM from the none-of-the-state's-business-whether-dark-or-good dept.

osiris writes: "The Register is reporting that being a Jedi Knight is now an official religion in the UK after the 2001 census conducted earlier this year. The final number of 'Jedi Knights' has not been confirmed yet as only about 95% of the census forms have been returned. As you could probably imagine, the Home Office is none too pleased. Apparently though, you can't get fined for lying about your religion in the census." Actually, according to the story, this gives the Jedi way no more official status than Plumbing would have if everyone put that down.

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Re:The sad thing is... by Spootnik · 2001-10-09 16:29 · Score: 5, Informative

I've checked out the UK Statistics Office list of religions and it is indeed coded as 896.

Satanism is 331.

They even allow you to have your "Own Belief System" (code 344).