(May 31, 2015 at 9:23 pm)Chuck Wrote:(May 31, 2015 at 7:20 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Star Wars is Star Wars for Christians. Remember the nonsense about the "Force." It is not an atheistic franchise at all. Battlestar Galactica is for Mormons.
The notion that the force has a dark side hardly seem Christian, nor the notion that force is channeled through some "miticlorian" biological symbiote suspectible to detection by a blood test. Star Wars isn't explicitly atheist, but it isn't theists either. It simply borrowed plot elements whose most conspicuous presence in popular culture had previously been in story that had contained Christian (as well coopted pagan) elements.
The dark side is simply satan.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
