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Tertullian famously wrote, \u201cwe multiply whenever we are mown down by you. The blood of Christians is seed\u201d\u00a0(Apol. 50.13).Was Obi-Wan Kenobi making a similar point, or a different one?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across the cartoon above on Reddit. It depicts a satirical cartoonist uttering the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi in response to an armed terrorist. What do you think that might be learned from thinking about Obi-Wan Kenobi as a martyr in the Star Wars story? Or the comparison between Star Wars and recent events? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":28128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[1262,7068,7070,8284,8729,11022,12389,12403],"class_list":["post-28129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-blood","tag-martyrdom","tag-martyrs","tag-obi-wan-kenobi","tag-paris","tag-seed","tag-terrorism","tag-tertullian"],"yoast_head":"\nObi-Wan Kenobi and Martyrdom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I came across the cartoon above on Reddit. 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