Sensei's Notes

Of all the religious websites I have visited the ones on the religion of the Jedi Knights are the most intriguing. They seem to possess the power to capture the imagination. In ancient times, the powerful religions of today had the ability to capture the imagination of primitive man. Tales of desert ascetics going into the wilderness, or climbing volcanic mountains, to see God used to be enough. But not anymore. Modern man is much too skeptical to believe that God is speaking through the thunder and the lightning, or that when God walks the earth the ground trembles. God spoke to Moses through the medium of a burning bush, and that must have been a wild to experience to a desert wanderer, but here in California there is always a brush fire that consumes hundreds and thousands of acres of bushes and trees. No one would believe someone who said that it was God speaking to him.

As we evolve so must God evolve... that's why the Churches are against the idea of evolution. But no sensible person can believe that the God of the Torah, the Bible and the Koran is anything other than a child. A jealous God who demands that his creation worship him sounds like a little boy to me. And the idea of a King is not a big deal anymore -- there are hundreds of thousands of "kings" in this world and the majority of them are in-bred idiots. Maybe the Emperor of the world, but a king is not very impressive to modern man. Every savage with a silk hat proclaims himself a king!

Now the Jedi religion is a thing of beauty. They've taken Taoism and Zen and souped it up... put it in a futuristic context. There is the myth, and the hero with a thousand faces, and the simplicity, and the Oneness with the Force (Tao), which has a yin/yang aspect in it's light and dark side. There is something for everybody. A place has been created for the good, the bad, and the ugly. It is a religion that could be, if it wasn't for George Lucas, and for the fact that Star Wars is a stupid movie series. And, the work people have put into it -- my God, that is the beautiful part. There are the costumes, the philosophy, and the countless websites, graphics, and interaction...

It is a lesson in "electronic gospel." It is the future of religion.

"We see it, yet it is not seen. We hear it, yet it is not heard. We talk about it, yet it is not talked about. We know it and yet it is not known. Tell me, how does this happen?"
- Yuan-wu

Website of the day: SLCentral it's all here: just scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Society/religion, and get ready to do some serious web surfing... what a fantastic source of information....

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