Is Star Wars a religion?

Tuesday, February 9th, 2016

In Australia, there have been at least 50,000 members of the Jedi order the last several censuses.

New Zealand discovered there were more Jedis than Hindus or Buddhists in their midst.

Today there is a Jedi Church that offers a mission statement as well as a plea right on its home page to include it once more in the 2018 New Zealand census.

In Turkey, there were protests in favor of building a Jedi church given that, as CNN recently reported, adherents struggle with the fact “… the nearest [Jedi] temple [is] billions of light years away”–thus leaving the people of earth sorely in need of a dedicated space for their religious Jedi rituals. Continue reading

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