• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    then it’s not too far a stretch to figure what the Rebels are fighting for.

    A theocracy under the Jedi religion?

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        7 days ago

        Christianity is much older and more mysterious than recent events, but a lot of people want to make the USA a christian theocracy.

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          7 days ago

          And it has also been worshiped constantly. There has been no event in the past where all of Christianity suddenly disappeared.

          Also, since the translation of the Bible from Latin to common languages back in the Middle Ages, Christianity has become a whole lot less mysterious. It’s not mysterious today, it’s mundane.

          The way A New Hope portrays Jedi (by the way characters talk about it), it sounds like Jedi have been a dying breed for a very long time, perhaps centuries, and now there’s just Obiwan and Vader. Turns out it was only a generation ago, and the reason why people consider it mysterious and distant is because nobody in the Galaxy has been exposed to Jedi as we the viewers have.