I filled out about 10 of these stupid forms for the police, immigration, home affairs, etc etc etc at every island I went to in Indonesia for a recent field trip for my PhD. I had to give every single place several photos of myself, have more photos taken, at immigration I even had all 10 finger prints taken…
Every form asked me what my religion was, and I answered every one of them the same way despite constantly getting a scowl from the (almost always muslim) bureaucrats. (FYI, they wouldn’t accept “None” or leaving it as blank).
I don’t know if they’ll ever let me back into the country again, but screw it! I’m not lying!
Atheist is not a religion. The authorities are correct.
The correct answer is: None
True, however they wouldn’t accept that as an answer, and it wouldn’t have been as amusing…
Should have tried ‘Judaism’ and seen how that went down.
Aw, not Pastafarian?
If they really don’t accept “none” despite it being the truth, I would have to agree that pastafarian would at least be funny.
Were you really born in Ferntree Gully? How lovely! Sounds like a hobbit town.
I wonder: would they have accepted ‘Darwinism’ as a religion? Or Skepticism?
Haha yeah it’s at the foot of the Dandenong mountains in Melbourne, Australia. Yeah no idea haha, probably only if they couldn’t read it and thought it was some other religion.
Too bad you didn’t put “Pastafarian” or “FSM” with a little picture of his holy noodliness beside it. LOL