The Force is definitely karmic. I'm really glad that it's established that individual identities are transitory in Star Wars
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I'm not going to disagree. My parents' own flirtation with various Asian faiths was... not good
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in the face of accusations of this esp from US fundies Lucas defaulted to saying it was just as much Christian
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he personally still says he's a Methodist
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I would have called Lutheran tbh. The guilt
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the Chinese translators assure us it is the Presbyterian church
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"I'm a Presbyterian, your mind drinks don't work on me!"
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the main Christian thing about it is that heavy emphasis on agentic evil and "temptation"
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it's funny bc the mistranslation is bc the Chinese translation was "Jedi Council" as "Council of Elders"
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and then the back-translation made it "Presbyterian" bc that means "governed by a council of elders"
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the Presbyterians were so named bc they believed in democratic councils of elders
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hence breaking off of the Episcopalians, who believed in appointing individual bishops, or, one might say, "Lords"
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(I mean they are, that's why in the UK bishops are the Lords Spiritual of the House of Lords)
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