Star Wars as Religion

Star Wars as Religion

Having posted yesterday about Doctor Who as religion, I was struck when today Hemant Mehta shared this video, “Darth Vader is My Savior”:

It does actually make a good point towards the end, as well as being amusing, and so it’s worth watching.

And given the bit of anti-Obama religious propaganda I shared earlier today, the picture below seems to connect the dots between all these recent posts, somehow (Via IO9):

I’m not ready to have the Sith claim Obama as one of their own. Can we have a version depicting him wielding a Jedi lightsaber?

UPDATE: See too the poster from a church bulletin board that Jim West shared – and leave him a comment to tell him how awesome you think it is!


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