Tim Fairchild wrote:
These are movies, guys. Ask the writer. Star Wars was a fantasy where some people 'believed' in magic little invisible beings inside other living beings that did magic things. This is similar to the invisible and magic beings and spirits who created the earth or cure people and do other magic things in today's religions. Some people claim to be able to control or channel the power of their god to cure others or do other magical things, much like the 'force'.
A fundamental difference between magic and religion is whether you can control the supernatural entity or not. Some people treat prayer as if it were magic, but a mistaken belief on what (say) Christianity says doesn't make it so.
Cheers, Daniel.
