Jedi Knights Now Britain's 4th Largest Religion

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Jedi Knights Now Britain's 4th Largest Religion

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Jedi Knights demand Britain's fourth largest 'religion' receives recognition

With their vast intergalactic knowledge and ability to harness the Force, the task of convincing UN officials to recognise their cause should be a walkover for a pair of Jedi Knights.

But self-proclaimed Jedis Umada and Yunyun, better known as John Wilkinson and Charlotte Law, have adopted a more conventional approach in their pursuit of recognition – delivering a protest letter.

The unconventional pair are calling for the UN to acknowlegde what has become Britain's fourth largest ‘religion’ with 390,000 followers.

The UN International Day of Tolerance, which takes place annually on November 16, is aimed at emphasising the dangers of intolerance and promoting integration and cohesion across the globe.

Umada, 27, and Yunyun, 24, both from London, want the day to be renamed the ‘Interstellar Day of Tolerance’ to reflect millions of people across the globe who have chosen to follow the Jedi code as a religion and truly reflect social diversity.

For the protest in Whitehall, the couple will wear full Jedi Knight robes and will be accompanied by a host of supporters including Star Wars favourite Chewbacca with a placard reading ‘Tolerance for Jedis’.

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A buch of crap, it is!

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Jedi is a religion just like the FSM.
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As religions go, Jedi is better than many. The Force doesn't have gender, so there's no assumed superiority of one gender over the other. The Force also is not ethnically or racially specific. Heck, it's not even species specific, so that shoots most of human religions' excuses for dominance. That it is a created religion doesn't make it any different than any other religion, except that the creator lives in our time and did it for a series of movies (at least he didn't start it as a power grab either spiritually or politically). It has a much stronger moral code than christianity apparently does, and if it includes wearing strange costumes - well, so do many sects of christianity. The Fundies are having fits, of course.
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Barbara Fitzpatrick wrote:The Fundies are having fits, of course.
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Then good enough for me it is.
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