# Religion in Star Wars **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171 "2009-07-16T00:29:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171/21 "2009-07-17T01:09:37Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > 3PO, as he was being lowered into the oil bath at Luke’s house on Tattoine says, “Thank the Maker.” > > That opens up the interesting possibility of a droid religion. Discuss. Possibly a mythologized version of the man who first invented droids. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171/22 "2009-07-17T02:39:20Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#): > > Possibly a mythologized version of the man who first invented droids. “Let Us make droids in Our image.” So, This Guy … created droids. Anthropomorphic and non, and placed them in the dew catcher farm, er… garden, and said unto them: "Be fruitful and multiply high order primes. Act prissy and whiny, and sometimes feisty. And have in subjection all the machines in the farm, er … garden. And This Guy saw it was fairly decent. And it became morning, and it became evening, another day just like all the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171/23 "2009-07-17T03:00:04Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > (Ben Kenobi- son of Kenny Obi; what’s Yoda’s surname?) Greenberg. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171/24 "2009-07-17T03:13:28Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#): > > More seriously, it seems everyone in the Star Wars Galaxy recognizes that the Force is real but outside of the Jedi and the Sith and some other groups are apathic about it. I agree. During the eras when the Jedi are active, “normal people” recognize that they have special powers, but don’t seem to care very much about why they have them. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171/25 "2009-07-17T03:20:59Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > 3PO, as he was being lowered into the oil bath at Luke’s house on Tattoine says, “Thank the Maker.” > > That opens up the interesting possibility of a droid religion. Discuss. You mean something like [Silicon Heaven?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ndSWYKDOg), it must exist, if it didn’t, where would all the calculators go? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171/26 "2009-07-18T22:55:07Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > 3PO, as he was being lowered into the oil bath at Luke’s house on Tattoine says, “Thank the Maker.” > > That opens up the interesting possibility of a droid religion. Discuss. Actually, post-prequels, that line has weird connotations of just who he might be thanking. I mean, we know who _his_ maker is now, right? ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171/27 "2009-07-18T23:08:48Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Actually, post-prequels, that line has weird connotations of just who he might be thanking. I mean, we know who _his_ maker is now, right? But _he_ didn’t, not in episode 4. So C3PO could have believed that he was created by whatever he’d been told, like a mythical super-droid who rules silicone heaven, some great engineer, or Dave Cloister. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171/28 "2009-07-19T05:20:09Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#): > > What religion does most of the people in the Star Wars galaxy practice? Can anyone mine the Expanded Universe for that answer? Hopefully, they were beyond the need for the lies of religion of any kind. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171/29 "2009-07-19T21:48:33Z")
> [@BMax](#): > > But _he_ didn’t, not in episode 4. So C3PO could have believed that he was created by whatever he’d been told, like a mythical super-droid who rules silicone heaven, some great engineer, or Dave Cloister. Oh, I know he didn’t know, thanks to the memory wipe, but still, bottom line it, he’s thanking the big bad of the movie. Which is weird. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171/30 "2009-07-20T15:32:57Z")
Well they’re not Southern Baptists. Not with all that dancing 😉 Maybe Jehovah’s Witnesses — I notice no one seems to have birthday parties. I may be the only person on the InterWebs who will admit to never having seen the elusive Star Wars Christmas special, but that would seem to imply that there’s some version of Christianity in that area. And I don’t recall hearing anything out of that to imply they’d be Catholic, which would lead me to think they’re likely Protestant. They drink, so they don’t seem to be Mormon. The use of some surgeries and such would rule out being Christian Scientists? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171/31 "2009-07-20T16:04:34Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Lutheran. (snip) I don’t remember reading anything in the EU books about them having coffee after service though. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171/32 "2009-07-20T16:13:30Z")
> [@johnspartan](#): > > I may be the only person on the InterWebs who will admit to never having seen the elusive Star Wars Christmas special, but that would seem to imply that there’s some version of Christianity in that area. And I don’t recall hearing anything out of that to imply they’d be Catholic, which would lead me to think they’re likely Protestant. Technically, it was the [Star Wars **Holiday** Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_wars_holiday_special), and the holiday that the characters are celebrating is a distinctly non-denominational “Life Day”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-in-star-wars/503171.md?page=1)