The Fourth Largest Religion in England and Wales
July 27th, 2006
I hadn’t known about this, but during the 2001 census for many English-speaking nations, hundreds of thousands of people gave an interesting response to the query of what their religion was. This was most popular in Great Britain, where fully 390,000 Brits said that their religion was “Jedi.”
As such, the Jedi belief ranked fourth, after Christian, Muslim, and Hindu, not counting the responses of “no religion” and “no response.” As such, followers of “Jedi” outnumbered those of “Buddhism” (sorry, Paul). Apparently, one out of every forty people in Brighton are members of the Jedi order. The results of the nationwide census:
- Christian: 72.0%
- No religion: 14.8%
- Chose not to respond: 7.7%
- Muslim: 3.1%
- Hindu: 1.1%
- Jedi: 0.7%
I think this is a brilliant idea, and for the next U.S. census, we should pick this one up and run with it.
Apparently we have some work to do in Great Britain.
Actually, when you consider just how buddhist the whole “Jedi” notions that Lucas came up with is, I’ll simply claim that someone answering “Jedi” is actually answering “Buddhist”!
Come back from the dead? Mystical power that is all around us, but which isn’t an entity that has a consciousness? Sounds like the Mystic Law to me!
Now if we could only get us some of them rad lightsabers…
Paul
Seattle, WA
2001….that was before Yvonne Ridley converted
to Islam…
Nowadays muslims might be more than 10%….
