Friday 9 January 2009

'Size matters not! Judge me by my size, do you?' [Yoda]

Lets take a look at some other blogs addressing the Jedi faith and see what their opinions are:

The Spitting Vessel
'This "religion" may be an offshoot of an erosion of faith in the established churches, other institutions of society, and government; in their search for meaning, justice, and equality among men. Honor and integrity are valued and hungered for, but their search has led them to worship the "force" and seek to be with "it". Little do they realize that it is the force of insanity they have embraced, much like insatiably greedy businessmen and power hungry politicians have.
Its mantra is "May the force be with you". Perhaps it should be "May the Farce be with you".'

Against the Grain
Steve in 2006 encourages people to list Jedi as their religion in the Australian census.

The Yoda Sermons (not much there)
A Jedi deciphering the wisdom of the 'prophet' Yoda.

Blog Me
'So I'm a Jedi...ish
Not 1 of those Jedi church Jedi cos that really lame. Have you looked at it? It should just be call the religion where we quote Star Wars lots but don't try to find true meaning in it all cos were just massive Star Wars nurds.
So I've came up with my own way of looking at the whole Jedi religion.'

Merely glancing at these four different blogs and their four very different opinions on the Jedi faith which they express, just goes to show how much controversy has been stirred up over the issue of the Jedi faith.
While I am by no means a believer of Jediism (although I do love the books and films) I do not see the problem with people following the Jedi philosophy as a religion. After all there is nothing very negative in the Jedi code, in fact it is all quite positive and people have believed in worse.

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