Thanks to men like Tom Cruise and John Travolta, we’ve learned that anything can be a religion. Men like this take the fictitious works of science fiction novelists like L. Ron Hubbard (or even George Lucas) and indoctrinate it into the feeble minds of the shallowest of mankind. Simply put, people love to worship things and will worship anything. Who cares if it doesn’t make sense, who cares if it was an idea literally pulled out of some guys ass literally last week, WE WANT TO BELIEVE!
It appears another sham religion has emerged, this time it is based on the Jedi philosophy made so popular by the Star Wars franchise. The followers of the Church of Jediism, (a word even more fictitious than their religion) use the “insight and knowledge” from the films as “a guide to living a better and more worthwhile life.”
When I was 6 I too was part of a religious group of this nature called “Turtle Power!” We followed the teachings of Master Splinter as they were passed down to the 4 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Master Splinter and The Shredder kind of had a yin and yang thing going on. Damn I wish that religion was still around.
Funny enough, almost all the ideas the Jedi’s follow appear to be ripped off from Upanishadic philosophy. I guess dudes that spend all day gripping their “light sabers” wouldn’t know too much about anything outside the ficticious world of Star Wars though. And furthermore, isn’t fan fiction a huge part of the Star Wars universe? Don’t these Jedi wannabe dip shits have a problem with the fact that people could just start rewriting things and if one piece of fan fiction becomes more popular than the rest, it sort of becomes the popular mantra? Oh yeah, that already happens in major religions. My bad.
Well, a few days ago this religion was met with some mockery and intolerance. My new hero, a 27 year old Welsh man name Arwel Hughes dressed up like Darth Vader, downed a 2 ½ gallon box of wine, donned a garbage bag cape and kicked these guys asses while they were having a light saber fight.
Yes… they were actually having a light saber fight. Hughes only got caught because they were recording it. I guess it’s kind of like their own version of porn… crossing swords… err, I mean light sabers and all.
When the victims, who are obviously not very good Jedi if two of them can’t even defeat a drunken Darth Vader, were interviewed about their religion they commented:
“We all love the films and what they stand for. Obviously some people are going to laugh about it… But a lot of people do take it seriously.”
Obviously he’s right since a 2001 United Kingdom census reported 0.7 percent or about 390,000 people listed Jedi as their religion.
That’s an awful lot of grown men playing with glow sticks. Hope they keep those things sheathed during all those long homosexual light saber parties!
Source: http://www.foxnews.com
Check it out: The Official website for the Jedi Church
