Daniel Carrera wrote:
Chad Smith wrote:
Again, the "pracitioner" - in this case, Obiwan and Luke were present,
and Obiwan was a Master - neither corrected him. Also, what
non-religion uses terms like "Temples" to describe their holy sites?
Indiana Jones and the Temple of doom has a temple, but the people in it
are not in a religion, but a cult. In The Matrix, Zion has a temple, and
though they have rituals, it's not religious. Furthermore, I don't
recall anyone referring to the Jedi temple as "holy".
There's more to a religion than the word "temple". One thing that makes
the Force unlike a religion is that you can control it. This is a
feature of witchcraft and magic, but not of religion.
Cheers,
Daniel.
There's also not really a higher deity in the Force or Jedi or whatever
you would call it as a religion.
I do think though that there are strong arguments that it is a religion.
The movies are dripping with symbolism. I mean Anakin, the savior, is
born of a virgin. I mean come on...
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