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A Critique of the Philosophy Behind Star Wars

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The War Between Faith and Reason

A kind of necessary human faith underlies the use of reason, which in turn leads to a specifically religious faith. You can be an open-minded agnostic and use reason to lead you to faith but then you make a leap - that's not just reason, but it's a leap in the light. I think George Lucas' goal was to go, okay, what's the least common denominator with supernatural stuff? And he might save some people from materialism. Go for him. But if you're a Christian, you know Jesus, and you already have an A plus, you see a move from A to C, and then you go to the bed, and you have to

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