The Bible and Star Wars


An atheist friend recently followed the paths of various "fan fiction" and related them to the Bible. The similarity is striking. Since it is seemingly easy today to have a large group of the public latch onto a fictional character and have them establish a emotional attachment to the character, it would have been easy centuries ago. Probably it would have been easier in ancient times. There was less knowledge of science so fictional explanations would have been easier to sell.

That the Bible itself warns of false gods is a clear indication there were lots of gods and lots of people persuading others of these gods. Paul writes in one of his tomes he is actually the author. So many other parts of the Bible were written by imposters. This raises the obvious question, how do we know the "Paul" himself was not an imposter. We have no trail to prove anything was written by "Paul."

Once on this blog I made to mistake of commenting on a fictional Star Wars character. A blistering comment came in that I did not understand and/or had not adequately studied the history of that character and was in error about her. It seemed obvious to me the character had some amount of realism to this commenter that went far beyond simple fictional entertainment. It was as if Star Wars heroes have entered the realm of spiritual beings. If that is the case, they will enter the realm shared by God and Jesus, plus Zues and a thousand others.

Harry Potter and other characters in the book series are another set of characters that seem to have god-like traits. People accost the author when a new book has a character doing something the reader thinks is out of character. 

It seems like role playing books and games are growing in popularity. There is the world-wide Dungeons and Dragons game. As more and more people gain skill in creating and playing out fictional characters could it be this has some impact on religion? That is, when people learn how easy it is to create a story and back story the more they recognize this is exactly what was done by the authors of the Bible? 

The next big god may be showing up on the pages some laptop somewhere as we are reading this.

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