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[endlessrarities]

Yippee!! An awfully nice lady just appeared at the door and asked if we'd be willing to complete the census.

Hey, I'm a purveyor of the past.  Of course I said yes!!!  (Swells with pride at being asked to contribute to this exercise in historical data gathering.)

And no, I won't be screwing up the results by saying 'Jedi Knight'.  Even though I am a self-confessed Star Wars fan....

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[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Filling in the census form is a legal obligation - in England anyway. I'd be surprised if it was otherwise in Wales, but I'm not sure about Scotland.

There's a big push for pagans to step up to the plate this year on the religious question. Google: 'pagan dash' for information.

I never know what to put. I'm an atheist, but there's no box to tick for that, just a box for 'no religion' which isn't necessarily quite the same thing. On the religion question I'd like to see an additional tick box for 'I am active in my faith' because I'll bet that 90% of the people who tick 'Christian' are of the christenings/weddings/funerals variety. People who have not been inside a church for forty years will still tick Christian because they sang hymns in school assembly and like getting presents at Christmas and were probably christened into the church by well meaning parents before they had any say in the matter.

Have you noticed that there's no way you can get un-christened?

Don't get me started... oh, you have... sorry.
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This year I might have to be: Pagan - Atheist. Though Jedi is awfully tempting, or Pastafarian (Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster).

In 100 years time when my great great great grandchildren come looking for me to add to their family tree, at least they'll learn I had a sense of humour.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I like to think of myself informally as a pagan with Episcopalian tendencies, but when my back's against the wall I flop into the 'agnostic' camp!!! Which is probably a euphemism for the 'I don't know what the heck's going on out there, so I'll hedge my bets...'category.

There is certainly no box for pagans with Episcopalian Tendencies...

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I'm deeply hypocritical when it comes to religion. While professing to be a committed atheist and having no belief in an afterlife or a supreme being I did an annual Christmas show tour for 15 years (and made 3 carol CDs) on the principle of 'it's business.' I definitely have pagan tendencies, but more in the nature spirituality and philosophical sense. And at the same time I am still a product of approximately 3,500 hymn-singing school assemblies and of having 'Christian values' pumped into me all my life. I am one of those people who could easily put 'Christian' on my census form when I ap patently not by belief, but am by culture. The census form actually makes it easy to tick the Christian box because by doing so we don't have to think about the rest of it. Hence I would like a box that asks if I actively pursue my faith.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Our form definitely stresses the 'organised' religion bit. So I guess I'll be ticking 'none'!!