Trust the Force, Mate!

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  1. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    For our newsgroup theologians thinking of studying at a school down under, news on Australia's fastest growing new religious faith:

    According to CNN, "The Australian Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday that 0.37 percent of the nation's population of 19 million, or 70,509 people, had written "Jedi" or a related response to an optional question about their faith when the head count was taken last August."


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2218456.stm

    http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/27/australia.starwars.ap/index.html
     
  2. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    The Reed College regisration form used to include: "Church preference?"

    The most common answer, apparently, was "Gothic cathedrals."
     

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