Well, fellow Brits, it's that time of the decade again. When the census form, with its warnings about fines if you don't return it, plops onto the doormat. It has a voluntary religion question. What to do? What to do?
There's been a campaign called 'PaganDASH' (http://www.pagandash.org/) in which the idea is we all write
'PAGAN-(insert path here)'
in our forms. So I'm PAGAN-HEATHEN. The aim is to ensure we aren't underestimated by officialdom, which tends to happen. I'm doing it.
Please at least consider it. I can understand why Pagans might not want their religion recorded on the databases of the government, but they do base policy on this stuff. For example the humanist society points out that, thanks to the 'Jedi' campaign last time, 400,000 non-believers didn't get counted (assuming all the 'Jedi' were non-believers - I have my doubts) and that this skews the believer/non-believer data the government uses to decide funding.
So are you going to do it? Why?
There's been a campaign called 'PaganDASH' (http://www.pagandash.org/) in which the idea is we all write
'PAGAN-(insert path here)'
in our forms. So I'm PAGAN-HEATHEN. The aim is to ensure we aren't underestimated by officialdom, which tends to happen. I'm doing it.
Please at least consider it. I can understand why Pagans might not want their religion recorded on the databases of the government, but they do base policy on this stuff. For example the humanist society points out that, thanks to the 'Jedi' campaign last time, 400,000 non-believers didn't get counted (assuming all the 'Jedi' were non-believers - I have my doubts) and that this skews the believer/non-believer data the government uses to decide funding.
So are you going to do it? Why?
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