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$\"Obi-Wan-Kenobi-Is-The-New-Face-Of-Jesus-PHOTO\"$ <\/p>\n

This was drawn to my attention by a blog commenter<\/a>, reaching them via another site<\/a>\u00a0which got it from Reddit.<\/p>\n

Star Wars and Christianity (and religion more generally) can intersect in all kinds of interesting ways. But I think this is the first time I have seen a photo of someone from Star Wars simply used as though it were a picture of Jesus.<\/p>\n

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