http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23665/jedi-church-founder-thrown-out-of-tesco-for-refusing-to-remove-his-hood http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23665/jedi-church-founder-thrown-out-of-tesco-for-refusing-to-remove-his-hood#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:31:29 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23665 The founder of the Jedi religion inspired by the Star Wars films was thrown out of a Tesco supermarket for wearing his distinctive brown hood.

Daniel Jones, 23, who has 500,000 followers worldwide, was told the hood flouted store rules and was ordered to remove it or leave the supermarket.

As a result Jones, who also goes by the Jedi name Morda Hehol, claims he has been 'victimised over his beliefs' and left 'emotionally humiliated' by the supermarket in Bangor, North Wales.

But Tesco hit back in the spirit of the epic space saga and claimed that the three most well known Jedi Knights in the Star Wars movies - Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker - all appeared in public without their hoods.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23665/jedi-church-founder-thrown-out-of-tesco-for-refusing-to-remove-his-hood/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21427/darth-vader-jedi-church http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21427/darth-vader-jedi-church#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 10:27:24 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21427 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21427/darth-vader-jedi-church/feed 0