Then they came for the Jedi....oh my!
Jedi religion founder accuses Tesco of discrimination over rules on hoods
Daniel Jones says he was humiliated and victimised for his beliefs following incident at store in Wales
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/18/jedi-religion-tesco-hood-jones
If you substitute Muslim for Jedi, it becomes serious and that may be Jones' point.
Do you think franchises affiliates are here yet? Tax free entity? Are we going to have to deal with Jedi fundamentalists? Will they have their own television networks, offering prayers for cash? Will we have Jedi missionaries on our street corners, spreading the gospel of Jedi?
Don't we have enough religion? Or is this something that we don't know about that God and Jesus did? Just wondering, you know. FOTD is sure that none of the major religions turned out as they were intended!
One of the greatest moments in British history was when they got Jedi recognized as an official religion.
Good times. Good times.
Quote from: sgrizzle on September 22, 2009, 07:06:41 PM
One of the greatest moments in British history was when they got Jedi recognized as an official religion.
Good times. Good times.
http://www.snopes.com/religion/jedi.asp
Quote from: custosnox on September 22, 2009, 09:35:47 PM
http://www.snopes.com/religion/jedi.asp
That's what I get for reading anything the UK news puts out other than Page 3.
It does raise an interesting point:
If the crazy "Jedi" religion were from a 2000+ year text we'd take it as true and grant it tax free status, fight wars proclaiming it was right, and instead of closing liquor stores on Sundays we'd . . . well, do something else I guess. The "beliefs" of the Jedi religion are no crazier than virgin births (they actually include a virgin birth), talking snakes with legs (Star Wars has talking lizard men too), rising from the dead (even the Force can't do that), man-gods, plagues, living in a whale (asteroid worm?), and ignoring the rules of physics. Seriously, switch Jedi lore to ancient history and make the Bible a movie series and we'd be mocking people for believing in the current science fiction over the the bronze age true story - just the same.
If this guy has an earnest belief in his crazy stories then he has as much of a right to claim religious persecution as anyone else. We don't get to judge which stories are too crazy to be a religion (Jesus part II: Jesus Comes to America [Mormons]. Jedi Part II: Xeno the Space God blows up evil using atomic bombs in a volcano. [Scientology]) and which ones are the truth (Ancient evil God(s) decides to be nice. Sends son to Earth to perform magic and then get executed. We all live happily ever after IF . . .). At some point in time your religion was the new crazy one with stupid stories and beliefs that everyone knew were just made up.
So I, for one, support the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on principle. If one set of crazy stories deserves protection, then why not the rest? And who are you to say I *really* don't believe all that crap and am just using my so called "religion" to get what I want?
I told my children about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster this summer while on a road trip. I am trying to work in constitutional discussions through parental teachings...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Don't really care about the funny hats, but if they start with the light sabers, that's over the line.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=jedi+CAT&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=3700BCD7CF9CBC8BA9313700BCD7CF9CBC8BA931