On May 24, 2005, at 9:30 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Heh, quoth the Card:
"As a religion, the Force is just the sort of thing you’d expect a
liberal-minded teenage kid to invent."
As opposed to Mormonism, which was invented by a conservative-minded
teenaged kid, and therefore is True.
OSC has absolutely no business critiquing anyone else's religion or
philosophy. Not when he believes in golden plates translated by dint
of magic goggles.
Let us not disrespect one anothers' pink unicorns. There are Mormons on
our list, and I credit a Mormon girlfriend back in the '80s for helping
me find my own vision of God.
I think Mr. Card's main point was that Mormonism (as well as, I
suppose, Islam, Christianity, et al) was at least intended to be taken
seriously as a religion by Jos. Smith, while Jedism is just another
sci-fi plot device gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Dave "In IDIC We Trust" Land
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