(February 21, 2015 at 1:45 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Using fiction to reflect our desires or social norms is fine, but those things cannot be used like a telescope. It also would not shock me if Star Wars or Harry Potter got turned into a religion. Atheists don't need to go that route.
There was already a fad in Australia to declare Jedi Knight as one's religion. I don't know if they were serious or not. The government didn't seem to think so as they made threats to prosecute people who used it when answering the national census.
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