And not just the Police Force.
Eight police officers serving with Scotland’s largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms, the BBC reported.
Strathclyde Police said the officers and two of its civilian staff claimed to follow the “faith,” as depicted in Star Wars. The details were obtained in a Freedom of Information request by Jane’s Police Review.
Strathclyde was the only force in the United Kingdom to admit it had Jedi officers.
About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland the figure was a reported 14,000. The Office for National Statistics did not recognize it as a separate category and incorporated followers of Jedi with the atheists.
Atheists? Really?. That doesn’t seem right to me.
Atheists believe in nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Everything was happenstance and there is no rhyme, reason or supernatural entity involved.
The Jedi believe in the supra-natural existence of motion and energy and an ability to modify it via willpower.
Yet again, a government body screws up.
“Atheists believe in nothing.[…] Everything was happenstance and there is no rhyme, reason or supernatural entity involved.”
Correction:
“Atheists believe
in nothingno religion.[…] Everything was happenstance and there is norhyme, reason orsupernatural entity involved.”Ahhh. That’s better.
Oh, and lumping the “Jedi” with the atheists is a presumption from the government (mostly accurate, I would guess) that the people claiming “Jedi” are mocking religion, rather than serious spiritual adherents to a piece of pop science fiction.
And I’m an atheist saying it! 😉