There's a pretty embarrassing video on YouTube of a man who alleges to be a Christian protesting some kind of Star Wars event.
My hope is that the guy isn't for real, although there's a good possibility that he is.
Apparently, he's very upset that people are more into Star Wars than Jesus, even though the prior is fiction and the latter is a historical figure.
That, I can kind of see. Most of us probably know more about our hobbies than our religion. It's always a difficult challenge to balance recreation with spiritual growth.
Then the guy starts suggesting that Star Wars fans are doomed to Hell, essentially drudging up 16th Century, puritanical, iconoclastic arguments against drama...and you can only feel bad for the guy, and kind of chuckle at the nervous humor it generates. Whoever is holding the camera kind of goads him on, as it rapidly becomes clear that the Star Wars geeks are reveling in finding someone even weirder than they are. The Christian protester seems to miss out on the idea that Star Wars is ultimately about repentance rather than telekinesis.
It kind of reminds me of this crazy clip where some Christian group tries to argue that Voltron and the Transformers will lead kids to devil worship. What they kind of miss is that the evil is practiced by the bad guys. Maybe someone should point out the Biblical stories about the magicians of Egypt and the Witch of Endor.
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