BBC news today featured an article about JEDI being a religion. It was sparked off by a site called The Jedi Creed which seems to take Jedi as being a way of life.
You may be a fan of the Star Wars films, but are you a follower? Moves are afoot to have the fictitious Jedi philosophy the movies espouse recognised as a proper religion.its seems scarily fanatical, but if you want to read more, head on over to BBC.co.uk
If 8,000 New Zealanders have heeded an e-mail asking them to declare Jedi as their faith on this week's census forms, then Star Wars will have spawned an officially recognised religion.
Kiwis who went along with the jape may have to explain themselves to the authorities since it is an offence to enter false information in the census.