Wednesday, May 14, 2008

And thus saith Windu to Sidius...

I read an interesting news story today, concerning a man dressed as Darth Vader attacking the founding members of Church of Jediism. Yes, the Church of Jediism is exactly what it sounds like: people that apparently cannot find identity in any of the thousands of other existing religions, and have established a church of their own based on the Star Wars mythology. Interestingly, massive numbers of people in New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain have recently declared themselves as belonging to the Jedi or Jedi Knight religion, in a concerted, humorous effort to skew their respective country's census data. Most of the people making the claim are assumed to be Christian or nonreligious, but like anything else, there are surely an astounding (and disturbing) number of "true believers". The "true Jediists" are probably a little resentful of the people who only claim to be followers of the Jedi Code, saying to themselves, "They're making a joke out of our beliefs! It would really be great to know how many of us Jedis there truly are." So, in an effort to give legitimacy to these "true Jediists", I have the following questions:

1. Which are considered canonical: the movies, or the books based on the movies?
2. Is George Lucas a prophet, and if so, then how do the Indiana Jones movies, THX 1138, and American Graffiti fit in to the Jedi theology?
3. Do Jedi have holidays? What day was Master Yoda born?
4. There aren't many women in the Church of Jediism, are there? Don't you think you should add "A Jedi Showers Often" to your Code?
5. Is it okay to use the Jedi Mind Trick to make others say embarrassing things in public, or is that frowned upon?
6. Is it possible that most of the people reporting themselves as Jedi in the census are, in fact, Sith? Does that concern you?
7. Are there Jedi missionaries? When can I expect them at my door?

2 comments:

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