{"id":5314,"date":"2012-07-12T21:44:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2012-07-12T21:44:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:44:16","slug":"star-war-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5314","title":{"rendered":"Star War and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the little book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Star-Wars-Trial-Science-Science-fiction\/dp\/193210089X\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Star Wars on Trial<\/em><\/a>, in the chapter &#8220;Charge #2&#8243; (to whit: While Claiming Mythic Significance, Star Wars Portrays No Admirable Religious or Ethical Beliefs&#8221;. The witness for the prosecution (John C. Wright) attacks this in part by pointing out that Star Wars borrows more from boy-fiction Flash Gordon &amp;etc than anything pretending to be religion. Mr Wright suggests:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A real religion addresses metaphysics, spiritual powers, martyrdom, ethics, salvation, miracles, and life after death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And no, all world religions necessarily evidence all of these. What he argues, point by point, is that Star Wars &#8220;Force&#8221; as religion is a calisthenic, it is<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>an atmosphere, a spooky hint of mystic powers and hidden forces meant to lend an air of exotic\u00a0super-naturalism\u00a0to the proceedings. The Force is there for the sword fights. The Force is meant to explain why a kendo fencer can perform amazing leaps, parry laser bolts or make a single one-in-a-million bull&#8217;s-eye shot into a ray-shielded thermal exhaust port with a proton torpedo and blow up a space station the size of a small moon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Force isn&#8217;t learned by credoa nd ethics, it&#8217;s something you learn by practice, &#8220;by doing one handed handstands while levitating crates on Swamp Planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What, for example, are the doctrinal differences between Obi-Wan and Mr Vader?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the little book\u00a0Star Wars on Trial, in the chapter &#8220;Charge #2&#8243; (to whit: While Claiming Mythic Significance, Star Wars Portrays No Admirable Religious or Ethical Beliefs&#8221;. The witness for the prosecution (John C. Wright) attacks this in part by pointing out that Star Wars borrows more from boy-fiction Flash Gordon &amp;etc than anything pretending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,23,460,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marko","category-movies","category-offbeat-questions","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}