The Force is Strong with this One

My favorite story this month has to be that eight of Scotland's police officers, in a recent internal survey, listed their official religion as Jedi.

Strathclyde was the only "force" in the UK to admit it had Jedi officers with local officials stating: "The Force appears to be strong in Strathclyde Police…Far from living a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, some members of the noble Jedi order have now chosen Glasgow and its surrounding streets as their home." About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland the figure was a reported 14,000.

This is certainly the most “inspirational” story to break out of the UK in recent weeks (barring Susan, “the force is strong with this one”, Boyle’s recent appearance on “Britain’s Got Talent”) and I’m now considering, just like, brothers Barney and Daniel Jones, who founded the UK Church of the Jedi - which offers sermons on the Force, light sabre training, and meditation techniques, on consecrating the first Jedi-Anglican-Baptist-American church, otherwise known as JABA.

I wonder if Susan Boyle would lead our choir?