{"id":1143,"date":"2001-10-10T18:54:22","date_gmt":"2001-10-10T23:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:54:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:54:04","slug":"church_of_yoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/10\/church_of_yoda.html","title":{"rendered":"Church of Yoda"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Reverend Toop, meet Jedi Master Dag Winru”<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Based on an e-mail campaign, enough folks in the UK census listed “Jedi Knight” as the religion to get it listed on the Official List of Religions for the census.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, I think that’s pretty funny. And cool.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the curmudgeonly history guy in me frowns. (“Hey, you kids! Get off my lawn!”) And what will the genealogists do a century hence …?<\/p>\n

(Link via Doyce<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Reverend Toop, meet Jedi Master Dag Winru” Based on an e-mail campaign, enough folks in the UK census listed “Jedi Knight” as the religion to get it listed on the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,27,6,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-religion","category-science","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2979,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/27\/dooku_is_dinkum.html","url_meta":{"origin":1143,"position":0},"title":"Dooku is dinkum","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Aug-02 8:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"Over 70,000 Australians listed Jedi as their religion during last year's census, working out to about 0.37% of the population. 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