021208: The Jedi Census. [Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 @ 6:52pm] Ytd was the Big Panic Day. I love HKY. ..anw, main pointof today's post is: ( RWhat is your religion?: Jedi ) "In the 2001 UK Census 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi Knight making it the fourth biggest belief in the country." Also, this is interesting: an old article from The Times, in 2003, reads, "Teachers have voted that no more faith schools should be set up, claiming that they cause social conflict. The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers agreed that it was an “inappropriate use of taxpayers’ money” to fund faith schools that, by their nature, had “exclusive and discriminatory philosophies”." Myself, I can't say whether faith schools are directly related to social conflict (like, how the hell am I supposed to know!) and I figure if the faith wants to set up a school then whatever man, it's your choice, so long as you don't force people to go to it. Having the state fund the setting up these schools does seem rather biased, though - it appears that only the more 'conventional' and widely-accepted religions get this boon. "Other delegates questioned why Jedi Knights— mentioned as a religion in the 2001 census — and Scientologists were not funded to start faith schools." ..if funding were left to the religion itself, I think the Jedi will never have a school. uhh, not that it'd ever get state funding, anyway. XD ( More on religion, less on schools. ) anyway I really, really, really, should go pack. Silence.1 note played.notes played. | Fiddle?

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