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Jedi Church Planned For Wales

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Nov 19, 2007
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Two Star Wars-loving brothers planning a Jedi church hope it will be much nearer than a galaxy far, far away.

Barney and Daniel Jones want fellow devotees to be able to join them close to their home on Anglesey.

Barney, 26 - or Master Jonba Hehol - and Daniel, 21 - Master Morda Hehol - head the UK Church of the Jedi, in honour of the film's good knights.

They say their services will include sermons on "the Force," light sabre training, and meditation techniques.

Hairdresser Barney became interested in the Jedi faith after 390,000 other Star Wars fans across England and Wales declared it as their religion on the 2001 census.

An internet campaign was fought to see Jedi officially included in the list and although this did not happen, collators included a special code to register the Jedis.

He said: "As children we always watched the Star Wars films anyway. We noticed that there were a couple of sites on the internet, Jedi church sites.

"We printed off a couple of sermons and did a sermon in our house for a couple of friends one night."

Barney and his musician brother Daniel, from Holyhead, help run four websites devoted to the development of the "faith".

They plan to go to the official opening of a Surrey-based branch or "chapter" of the UK Church of the Jedi in April, and hope to hire an Anglesey venue for their own services.

Already six followers regularly meet in north Wales to discuss setting up the "church".
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10 years from now it will be as big as scientology. And probably just as ridiculed.
 
Got to be better than the other church of sci-fi, scientology. ;)

And those who mock the Jedi, will have their Dianetics book cut in half with a lightsaber.
 
I think it's a great idea! "Sci-fi"religion can't be any worse than "supernatural"

Supernatural forces were the fascination thousands of years ago and it gave all those culturally irrelevant religions people still won't shut up or stop fighting over to this day a way of suckering people in with the fear of what might happen after death if you don't think like they do.

Plus, they could make May the 4th a bank holiday one day because of it :D
 
If you know where to look, there are some pretty damned good semi-functioning lightsaber replicas on the market, albeit without the actual ability to slice anything.
 
Too bad Jedi don't exist. It would be interesting to see how they would do in the middle east conflict. Also Klingons in the Middle East would be interesting along with the Borg, Sandpeople, Wookies, Vulcans, and some Stormtroopers.
 
BornAgainMac said:
Too bad Jedi don't exist. It would be interesting to see how they would do in the middle east conflict. Also Klingons in the Middle East would be interesting along with the Borg, Sandpeople, Wookies, Vulcans, and some Stormtroopers.
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Bah, you forgot everyones favorites... Ewoks and Gungans...:D
 
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