A very interesting article. According to newly released census data. 16% roughly 4.8 million people in Canada now claim "no religious affiliation". Oh the times they are a changing.
Of course it obviously doesnt mean they are all athiest, but still, very intersting and refreshing to see a jump in secularism here.
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Enricko wrote:But my beloved Québec is overrun by hokey-new-age cults! !
"Hokey cult" is a redundant term.
I think it's like "Fundamentalist Moron", ofcourse all fundamentalists are morons, but it is always good to make special note of that fact, hence the moron bit.
Darth Wong wrote:And 20,000 Canadians said they were Jedis in the last census. We outnumber Satanists and Scientologists and Hare Krishnas.
Did you put Jedi?
Excellent, the worlwide spread of the righteous continues.
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Zoink wrote:An article in the Globe and Mail listed, Canada: 20,000 Jedi; Britain: 400,000 Jedi; Australia: 70,000 Jedi.
There must be at least 500 thousand of us. We're a religon.
Are the people who put "Jedi" on their census forms going to build their own houses of worship, or will they stick to holding services in their parents' basements?
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Zoink wrote:An article in the Globe and Mail listed, Canada: 20,000 Jedi; Britain: 400,000 Jedi; Australia: 70,000 Jedi.
There must be at least 500 thousand of us. We're a religon.
Australia needed 12,000 for it to qualify as a religion, but then it was rejected any way (and threats made to fine those who put it down) as there was no formal code or place of worship.
I love how they invent arbitrary requirements for religions in order to disqualify the ones they don't want to admit. They don't want to acknowledge that there's no real difference between a "valid" religion and a "fake" one.
Since when does there have to be an organizational structure and designated place of worship for a religion to be valid? When Jesus supposedly wandered around with his nascent cult, he had neither.
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Typical. Us Jedi don't crow to the goverments so they refuse to accept us. Just because we don't have tea and biscuits with the mayor like the baptists do we're discriminated against. bah!
weemadando wrote:there was no formal code or place of worship.
Yes there is, the jedi code has been published.
And what do they think that building in AotC was... they never said it couldn't be CGI.
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Well, Jedi already has several Sects. I mean, just with the Midichlorian issue...
On a more serious note, a Jedi need not a place of worship(ESB, Master Yoda). The code of conduct is well known, and therefore one can easily establish a group of Jedi.
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Enricko wrote:But my beloved Québec is overrun by hokey-new-age cults!
I have to ask you this question: Do you consider yourself Québecois or Canadien?
That deserves an answer. I believe in a strong Quebec in a strong Canada... until our Evil Plan (tm) to control the World through the use of mapple sirup as a weapon of mass destruction can be implemented!
As for place of worship for the Jedi, what do you call the theaters when a new Star Wars movie comes out on the silver screen?
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I don't even remember that census. Maybe it was that thing I threw away unopened... Wait, that's illegal isn't it. I never said anything. No one heard anything.
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