{"id":9659,"date":"2012-09-25T09:26:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T13:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=9659"},"modified":"2012-09-25T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T13:26:59","slug":"star-wars-as-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/09\/star-wars-as-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars as Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Having posted yesterday about Doctor Who as religion<\/a>, I was struck when today Hemant Mehta shared this video<\/a>, \u201cDarth Vader is My Savior\u201d:<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\nIt does actually make a good point towards the end, as well as being amusing, and so it\u2019s worth watching.<\/p>\nAnd given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/09\/will-you-vote-jesus-or-barack-obama-into-your-heart.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the bit of anti-Obama religious propaganda I shared earlier today<\/a>, the picture below seems to connect the dots between all these recent posts, somehow (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5946022\/and-now-president-obama-riding-a-lion-while-wielding-a-lightsaber\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9<\/a>):<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/img.gawkerassets.com\/img\/1804z0ohz6kuvjpg\/original.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"378\"><\/p>\nI\u2019m not ready to have the Sith claim Obama as one of their own. Can we have a version depicting him\u00a0wielding\u00a0a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/zerode.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/28\/jedi-path-and-fandom\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jedi<\/em><\/a> lightsaber?<\/p>\nUPDATE: See too <a href=\"http:\/\/zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/25\/more-perversion-and-depravity-from-the-emergent-cult\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the poster from a church bulletin board that Jim West shared<\/a> \u2013 and leave him a comment to tell him how awesome you think it is!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having posted yesterday about Doctor Who as religion, I was struck when today Hemant Mehta shared this video, \u201cDarth Vader is My Savior\u201d: It does actually make a good point towards the end, as well as being amusing, and so it\u2019s worth watching. And given the bit of anti-Obama religious propaganda I shared earlier today, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,80,91],"tags":[1010,2451,4871,5612,5677,8739,10169,10800,10817,11364,11822],"class_list":["post-9659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-religion","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-barack-obama","tag-darth-vader","tag-humor","tag-jedi","tag-jesus","tag-parody","tag-religion","tag-satire","tag-savior","tag-sith","tag-star-wars"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Star Wars as Religion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"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\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/09\/star-wars-as-religion.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Star Wars as Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/09\/star-wars-as-religion.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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