I find your lack of faith disturbing...

What do you mean? He's there in the photo; that's better evidence than you'll get for the existance of God!

Mine's the long cloak with the hood and the lightsaber in the pocket...

That should be "didn't really exist".

Afetr all it was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..........

was was DV a legit precessionor or was it some prankster who just decided to join the line.. (At least his costume was better than a bin bag!)

that it wasn't his brother Chad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wGR4-SeuJ0

Its comments like that "Vader doesn't exist" which explain why kids today are running amok. In my years of growing up we knew to rightly fear Lord Vader. He may have been wearing green and white and telling us how to cross the road but that "Green Cross Code Man" we knew was really the Dark Lord of the Sith in disguise waiting to catch us out.

If he was still pursuing that simple deception kids today wouldn't be stabbing one another and getting drunk. They'd be too ruddy scared of Darth Vader to do anything but huddle in their homes abiding the law or else....

**Force-choke** Gakkk urrrkkk Force-choked Vulture

Jeff ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw

lol

/Mines the one that *isnt the one you are looking for*

We only have the words of blokes in frocks to tell us they are the good guys. 'Holy hand grenade of Antioch', Crusades and all that stuff. Darth may well be next up for Archbish of Canterbury.

"Death Star of wonder, Death Star of light, Now who the fuck are we off to fight?"

Jedi finally being accepted as a religion, just as valid as the other fairy tales.

<mine's the pirate outfit with the noodles in the pocket>

Darth has a son out of wedlock.

Cue the News Of The World.

"Darth in son on the other side shocker with drill, sex and Bambi!"

Mines the one with the slow news day editor.

It's good enough for the UK census, so valid religion in my book.

Given the main thrust of many of the comments, its ironic that the photo so graphically depicts the limitations of scientific observation!

I'm not getting my coat, I'm greeting the invisible man.

was convincing The Register he didn't exist.

Coat.

It was a spoof by the Vantrú, an associtation of agnostics here in Iceland http://www.vantru.is (Icelandic only) at the local annual priest conference.

The proof:

Just check out the parking sign at the back in the picture, that's icelandic, not english.

Here's the original news (again, only in Icelandic): http://mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2008/06/11/svarthofdi_a_vegum_felagsmanna_i_vantru/

This shows that "reader Howard Owens" is a lying tw@

Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen Pope tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the Orthodox' hidden fortr…

I find your lack of faith disturbing..

In case you have missed it, the current Catholic Pope looks like the Emperor / Senator Palpatine. Is this an elavorate attmept of the dark side on religions ? Will this spawn a new Clone war with many Dwayne Jhonson (AKA The Rock) look alikes dressed in plastic white costumes running amok ? what will be the result of Directive 666 for us ?

Mine´s the one with the funny looking pills in the right pocket

Being a hard line Atheist. No enjoyment of art, no tolerance for the beliefs of others, an annoyingly smug attitude, total, blind, unquestioning belief in dogma with no ability for critital thinking and living in a world where you think people only do things to further there own position.

'an annoyingly smug attitude' if that's the case, do you think they would really give a shit whether you approve or not?

"..but how do we know that the Pope is a Catholic? ...or indeed human?"

To quote Bender......."Is the Space Pope Reptilian?"

Hmm new Pope resembles Palpatine, Vader seen at Icelandic Church, Jedi religion acknowledged.......yes clearly its all a setup to allow the creation of the Jedi, then wipe them out to teach all the other religions not to fuck with Catholicism !!!!

Order 666 - "We must move quickly. The Jedi are relentless cry babies. If they are not all destroyed, it will be civil whining and complaining without end."

This picture was not shot in NSW, it was shot in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Evidence: Look at the "P" - it says "gjald" which means "Fee" in English.

Don't get the sheep based economies mixed up, please.

Thumbs down because of a blatant error in Geography.

Being an atheist, I could quite happily pull apart that entire post with counter arguments and examples of just how utterly, utterly wrong you are on every point, but instead, I think I'll post the definition of "Bigot" from Wikipedia:

"Bigot is often used as a pejorative term against a person who is obstinately devoted to prejudices, even when these views are challenged or proven to be false or not universally applicable or acceptable."

Because it fits perfectly. I think there is an irony of someone railing against atheism [and presumable being religious in some way - otherwise you'd be describing yourself, surely?] fitting the above description so well, but I'm too lazy to tease it out.

At least I don't make baseless accusations about peoples character and lifestyle based upon nothing more than a word used to describe their religious leanings, or lack thereof. I make decisions about people based upon what they say, do and behave.

I have decided that you are a bit of a twat, and a bigot to boot, not based on the idea that you *might* be religious, but based on the fact that you are clearly incapable of separating 'religion' and ' character and behaviour of an individual person', which is the mark of a true idiot. And as we all know, idiocy transcends all religious barriers...

Thanks for the opportunity of a Friday afternoon rant, I'm off to the pub :-)

Steven R

Second (most of) that.

How the sci-fi world and the religious world have come together.

BISHOPS LOVEs SCI-FI!

> shunned the dark side?

> Why is he then seen with these guys?

> - Anonymous Coward

"shunned _by_ the dark side", so he 's with these guys ?

Not only is the street signs being in Icelandic a clue, but the ruffs those priests are wearing are not part of the vestments of any Anglican communion. They are characteristic of Scandiwegian Lutherans.

Just thought you'd like to know.

"It must be a sad life... Being a hard line Atheist. no tolerance for the beliefs of others"

We have "tolerance" for your beliefs - it's you we don't like.

Mine's is the one with a dystopian view of the future.