The Rise Of The Jedi Religion Worldwide

Everyone is familiar with the Star Wars Films. And made famous from those films is the Jedi Order. In the films, for those unfamiliar, members of the Jedi Order, known as Jedi Knights, were protectors of the galaxy and guardians against chaos in the Universe. They believed in a quasi-religious thing called 'The Force' in which everything in the universe is a part of. Now that you know that you must know this: there are apparently real life Jedi. In what is known as the 2001 Jedi Census Phenomenon, members of certain English-speaking countries declared on the census of that year that "Jedi' Or 'Jediism' was their religion. Now to pose the question: Are these people actually serious about their relief? Or is it just a metaphorical middle finger to governments? Either way, my friends, May The force Be With You.

for Statistics follow the link under the article

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon

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