too fantastic to not comment on, i laughed so hard when i saw this… made my night!
Well established? Well i guess you can say that. But if I wanted to and if I had the time I’m guessing I could pick out the 30 or 40 years of peanuts strips and frankenstien a belief system for Great Pumpkinism. Its well established that the GP wants a sincere pumpkin patch. I should get extra time off to tend to my pumpkins. I should also be allowed to drag around a blanket with me.
hey, how can you say “not so much”…you’re not respecting my religion. It has been chronicled in the drawings of shulz! How can you be so mean?
*Do you undertand what I’m saying? *
As Ferret Herder said, it sounds a lot like buddhism. So why not adopt that? I have a former girlfriend thats into that. No biggie, I kind of resopect and am envious of the happiness shes found.
If you’re a jedi and it makes you happy, knock yourself out. I guess its easier than buddhism, I don’t know. But I’m sorry, I might be able to respect your right to be a jedi master, I still think its…well, a little silly. But thats me…and if you’re serious abojut your religion, I wish you happiness in it. Shit, you’re probably happier than I am, so go for it.
You? I’d be like "Damn! That guy has a fucking hammer! Shoot him! direct all fire to the guy with Mjolnir! Fuck it! Call in an air strike!".
If were to go all Star Wars on the topic of religion, I’d substitute the word pants in as many opportune places as I could find in the Old and New Testaments. A Pantstheistic approach to Christianity, if you will. It may sound odd but really, it solves a number of problematic ethical questions about the nature of God.
What, he wanted Abraham to sacrifice his SON? No way. It was his PANTS that God really wanted. ('Course one can’t be making a Covenant with some guy nekkid from the waist down in the desert, so a goat was rapidly swapped in.)
How is it that Egypt is punished with deadly plagues, when it was God who “hardened Pharaoh’s heart”? Simple: he was hardening Pharaoh’s PANTS. Which would annoy anybody into stubbornness.
And then, God commanded the Israelites to eliminate the Canaanites, man, woman and child? “The city [of Jericho] and everything in it must be completely destroyed as an offering to the Lord”? No way… It was their horrible, baggy and underwear showing PANTS that had to be destroyed as an offering. Unfortunately, due to the lack of vowels in spoken Hebrew at the time, plus there was this chest cold going around and the lamp oil ran out at just the wrong time, one thing led to another and an order for genocide was mistakenly received.
And this Jesus dude… “I did not come to bring peace, but a sword”? No, man, it’s PANTS he came to bring!
ok, but what if EVERYONE had a hammer?
Open fire on all of 'em and let Odin and the Valkyries sort 'em out. 
Isn’t that what you would be doing on a battlefield anyway?
Most people find most other people’s religions to be a bit silly.
Leaving aside all the hard work that almost certainly went into that website, what’s the protocol on worshiping something copyrighted? It seems to me that either copyright holders don’t have the right to their IP, or private citizens don’t have freedom of religion in this case. Whose interests would win out, if this became a real issue?
Are you sure that Jedi is copyrighted? I looked a bit, and I couldn’t find any evidence that it was.
Except for the fact that there aren’t any Jedi. Do you really think Sgt. Skywalker actually believes in the Force? No, he doesn’t. He’s just shitting everyone.
As an atheist, I guess I just don’t see it as any sillier than any other religion. To me, they are all based on fiction.
I could have sworn I read in a book on ancient beliefs that there were Jedi in ancient Egypt, and George Lucas borrowed the name from them.
How is belief in Jedi any more ridiculous than belief in any god? Maybe the ancient secrets of controlling the force were lost when most of the Jedi died out. They were around long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, after all.
Hell, if anything, it’s more credible than Jesus. Some dude 2000 years ago performing some “miracles.” What, like 3 of them? The wine thing, the feeding people with bread, and curing a leper. I guess he brought that one dude back from death (probably just discovered CPR 2000 years early), and came back himself. So 5 miracles.
Do you know how many Jedi there were, performing who knows how many miracles on a daily basis? Pfft, Jesus has some catching up to do.
Which symbol? That swirly thing? This is the Jedi symbol, though I don’t know if they would actually put that on a tombstone.
Reminds me of this.
If I were a soldier and wanted to pull a stunt like that, I’d indicate that I was a worshipper of Crom.
It gets worse. You have Orthodox Jedi who only believe in the Holy Trinty (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi.
Then there are the Reformed Jedi who believe in mitochlorians.
There is also the Han Shot First Death Cult but the less said about them the better.
I thought about Crom, but he didn’t grant me revenge so I said the hell with him.
They’d hammer in the Mjorning.
Splitters!