Jedi 'Religion' Grows in Australia

BBC ^ | 8/27/02

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

He just has to get a few people to say that he did. 17 posted on 8/27/02 9:34 AM Pacific by BikerNYC

More specifically, he has to get at least 500 eyewitnesses who are willing to die rather than disavow the truth of their claims.

Which is not the kind of sacrifice which a man will typically make for something which he knows to be false... but which sacrifice he will make, for something he knows to be true.

[Grig]

I'm looking forward to the Jedi vs Calvanist flame wars in the religion forumn here. :-)

[BikerNYC]

Or just get some people to claim there were 500 witnesses that died rather than disavow the truth of their claims. It doesn't take much to start a religion.

[jpl]

Well, he already thinks he walks on water...as do many of his fans!

I'll bet Jesus never would have released "Howard the Duck".

[jlogajan]

Well, people have been killing other people over their religious differences for 10's of thousands of years. If being killed for your religion proved its reality, all current religions would be proved -- thus a contradiction.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I'll bet Jesus never would have released "Howard the Duck".

ROTFLMAO!

[GSHastings]

He just has to get a few people to say that he did.

Of course, those people will have to keep on saying that he did while they themselves are being tortured and killed.

ANY TAKERS?

(By the way, a "few" in this case means approximately 500.)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Sith Lord Pingarooni.

[johniegrad]

Actually, I think he's referring to coming back to life after being killed.

A stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles

[alloysteel]

If enough people can be enrolled in the "Jedi religion", that shall leave no room for incursions by the militant Muslims, which seem to be threatening practically every other country on the planet.

Aren't the Jedi warriors? And isn't that the kind of army we should be considering sending against the Islamofascists?

[stainlessbanner]

Shh! Don't tell em wrastln's fake, either!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Will the Hollywood flakes switch from Scientology to Jedi now?

[steve-b]

Some books, like this movie, are entirely without basis in fact. Others deal with more dangerous realities.

[Billy_bob_bob]

And so it begins.

A thousand years from now....the evening newscast.

"The Jedi ground forces are attacking the Elvistian stronghold. The John Lennonites have joined forces with the Elvistian's and are flanking the Jedi forces. But the Jedi forces have deployed chemical weapons, wiping out the Lennonites and forcing the Elvistian troops to retreat."

Is it just me or are people just basically nuts?

[steve-b]

There are several appropriate responses to a government that insists upon knowing which religion you profess.

Feeding them gibberish is the most restrained and polite of the options.

[Darth Sidious]

The problem with the Sith religion is that we limit ourselves to only two adherents at a time. You can imagine how paltry the offerings are when we pass around the plate on Sundays.

[rustbucket]

Why does the Australian government need to know the religion of Australians?

[colorado tanker]

I'll believe they're Jedi when I see their mitichlorian counts.

[GSHastings]

Well, people have been killing other people over their religious differences for 10's of thousands of years. If being killed for your religion proved its reality, all current religions would be proved -- thus a contradiction

You missed the point entirely.

Subjecting yourself to death for what you BELIEVE to be true, is a common virtue.

Subjecting yourself to death for what you KNOW to be untrue, is extremely rare.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Posted by jlogajan to OrthodoxPresbyterian On News/Activism Aug 27 9:46 AM #25 of 38 ~~ Well, people have been killing other people over their religious differences for 10's of thousands of years. If being killed for your religion proved its reality, all current religions would be proved -- thus a contradiction.

Only the Apostles weren't interested in "dying for their religion".

They were simply willing to die rather than deny their own eyewitness knowledge of the resurrection of Jesus Christ -- hardly something for which a man would be willing to die if he knew he was lying.