Jedi 'Religion' Grows in Australia

BBC ^ | 8/27/02

[headsonpikes]

"Howard the Duck"

You're a wicked man!!! ROTFLMAO!!

[steve-b]

At best, that proves sincerity, not validity.

[steve-b]

"You do not need this census form filled out."
I do not need this census form filled out.

"This is not the information you're looking for."
This is not the information we're looking for.

"Move along, move along."
Move along, move along.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

To: OrthodoxPresbyterian At best, that proves sincerity, not validity. 42 posted on 8/27/02 10:06 AM Pacific by steve-b

At the least, it proves that the Apostles (and 500 others) were absolutely certain of their eyewitness knowledge that Jesus rose from the dead.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

You can imagine how paltry the offerings are when we pass around the plate on Sundays.

Good point. But why the need to pass the plate? Let the force be your guide. Surely a Sith Lord could drop some loose change on a plate from across the room with nothing more than the wave of his hand.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Posted by BikerNYC to OrthodoxPresbyterian On News/Activism Aug 27 9:44 AM #23 of 45 ~~ 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.

Sure... people who will die for a statement of fact which they know to be false are oh, so common.

[watchin]

Nice. (and they say it's just a book. HA!)

[watchin]

Well, people have been killing other people over their religious differences for 10's of thousands of years

The truth is that more people were killed in the name of atheism in the last century than the sum total of all of the religion related deaths you can actually cite numbers for, which attests to the fact that religion has had an overall good impact on man's history.

Atheism's track record is looking pretty dismal, so far.

[Momaw Nadon]

( ( ( ( ( ( PING ) ) ) ) ) )

[Billthedrill]

Let 'em get their own TV channel and send me a light saber COD. Then we'll talk.

[OWK]

I have been a practicing Jedi since 1992.

[stuartcr]

Why would subjecting yourself to death for any reason, be considered virtuous? Is suicide virtuous?

[al_c]

ping.

[Momaw Nadon]

[AdA$tra]

If I can have a light sabre, I might consider converting!

[andy_card]

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.

But why don't you accept the very real presise that the whole book is a lie? Maybe these apostles weren't really willing to die for Jesus. Maybe they didn't exist at all, since no evidence outside the Bible exists.

[watchin]

BTW, it's not the being killed that's the kicker - it's the walking away afterward.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

I have been a practicing Jedi since 1992. Posted by OWK to OrthodoxPresbyterian

"You have been a practicing Jedi since 1992" (says OP, staring blankly into space)

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

But why don't you accept the very real presise that the whole book is a lie? Maybe these apostles weren't really willing to die for Jesus. Maybe they didn't exist at all, since no evidence outside the Bible exists.

Well, no evidence at all -- aside from the 2 billion Christians (cause - effect), the reams of extra-biblical testimony (Josephus et al), the vast amount of manuscript evidence etc., etc.....

Nobody really doubts that Aristotle existed; Nobody really Siddharta Gautama Buddha existed; Nobody really doubts that Julius Caesar existed; nobody really doubts that Mohammed existed; yet men will irrationally deny the existence of Jesus and the Apostles for whom we have vastly more evidence.

Why? Because they are emotionally unable to deal with Objective Reality, that's why.

[Charles Martel]

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

Hmm... looks like not *everyone* holds him in high regard...