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nadriel ([personal profile] nadriel) wrote2006-12-18 02:25 pm
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Random thought

If Jedi is valid as a religion, does that mean Sith is too?

[identity profile] blackmetalbaz.livejournal.com 2006-12-18 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You have clearly never met [livejournal.com profile] alcina2 (or indeed her firend "[livejournal.com profile] darkside_doris") who is a Sith realist. You couldn't make this shit up. Or perhaps that is precisely the point...

[identity profile] nocturne-uk.livejournal.com 2006-12-18 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm see this is quite odd.
Jedi is simply one perception of a religion that would (if Star wars mythology is to be fully translated to the real world) believes in 'The Force'.
The Sith is also a similarly focused religion, as are the Nightsisters (force 'witches').
So, we have:
The Jedi (or Christians)
the Sith (Satanists)
Nightsisters (wierd cultists - Scientology?)

So surely belief in the force itself is also a religion (as a parallel God = the Force)

Of course any single sect can come up with a different name (Hell, Daoists would just equate the Force to Dao)

How many religions do you want to split the star wars mythos into?

[identity profile] shakalooloo.livejournal.com 2006-12-18 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The Jedi were an order of knights, not a religion.

There are always two Sith. Only way in is over some schmuck Darth's dead body.

[identity profile] nocturne-uk.livejournal.com 2006-12-18 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Very True - kind of a Kinghts Templar of the SW mythos ...

[identity profile] mavis-cruet69.livejournal.com 2006-12-18 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oddly I said that last night.

[identity profile] siroswold.livejournal.com 2006-12-18 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Jedi and Sith are two subgroups within the same religion. Both make use of the Force just for different ends. If a Jedi becomes a Sith they do not change religion.