Jedi Church - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 07 Feb 2016 21:37:06 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Jedi Church - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Is Star Wars a religion? https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/02/09/80209/ Mon, 08 Feb 2016 16:20:49 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=80209 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 Read more

Is Star Wars a religion?... Read more]]> 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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