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Jedi Makes The Census List
Scientology, author L. Ron Hubbard's creation that detractors call a "sci-fi religion," may be soon be overshadowed by George Lucas's honest-to-goodness sci-fi religion. Jedi Knight has joined mainstream religious choices - like Church of England, Hindu and Muslim - and less mainstream choices - like Scientology, Druidism and New Age - on the list of religion codes for the 2001 British census. Earlier this year, Brits were urged in an email campaign to list Jedi - the mystical way of life followed by Obi-wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies - as their religion on census forms. And the project has succeeded. Its official code is 896, placing it at #174 on a list of 177 choices, just above Heathen, Athiest and None. Though sufficient numbers of people wrote the entry in for it to be allocated its own code for the census processing team to use, officials from Britain's Office Of National Statistics are keen to note the code does not confer an official status on the religion, saying, "It is not up to us to recognise or not recognise religions." It is not yet clear how many people will declare themselves as Jedi, as the counting process is still going on. Results are to be published in Autumn 2002.
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