Lobster Blogster

Lobsters are fairly neutral when it comes to religion. Actually being one of God's creatures mean that aquatic beings have no need to follow one creed or another, and so are technically atheist. Or does that mean that lobsters don't really exist?

Well, anyway the lobster has been investigating a couple of religious groups whose numbers are on the definite increase.

Firstly there are Jedi Knights, who seem to have somewhat miffed the UK's Office of National Statistics by achieving the third most popular religion in the UK for the 2001 census. Cunningly the ONS managed to write Jedi Knights out of the religious populations tables, but they had to classify followers of the Jedi Knight religion as "No religion" in order to do this. To a lobster this seems to defeat the purpose of asking humans what their religion is in the first place. The lobster wonders if Jedi Knight consider themselves to be persecuted by the UK government, and if so what further action they hoped to take in this matter. Being persecuted often seems to be a good starting point for a religion.

The second group is the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Worldwide they claim to have over 10 million members, but they don't seem to indicate where they all are. They are very open to having their beliefs taught alongside those of other religions. In fact, the Church places great emphasis on endorsements from scientific experts as to the validity of its claims. It would appear that church members, or Pastafarians as they like to be called, have only recently felt safe enough to air their views without being subject to ridicule, or worse. Needing to start a religion in an underground fashion is also the mark of a religion which is going to be around for a very long time to come. A nice feature of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is that many devotees speak of being "touched by His noodly appendage".

If you fancy starting a new religion, or maybe you just want to join one of the old ones, remember the lobster is always here to answer your questions, be they of an aquatic or general nature.