Quote: "I am officially Jedi - Atheist.
Aka Sith.
I believe in the force.
*Off to practice*"
Sith are not Atheist.
One thing to note about the Jedi Religion, while it has no deities of it's own per'say; each Jedi is free to follow and worship any they choose to, provided it doesn't conflict with the teachings of the Jedi Caste you are part of.
I think that Jedi (from either of the main three Caste, Knight/Sith/Forge) generally speaking are quite open.
While the Knights and Sith, have very strict guidelines... there is still tollerance between them to other belief systems.
Something interesting, is both light and dark sides have their own accounts on history. Also have similar perhaps fictional characters, as those that can be found within the Qu'ran, Bible and Torah.
In indeed similar events.
One of the key components of the Jedi religion is in-fact being able at "hotspots" to be able to communicate with spirits that have caste away their bodies.
While it is a fictional story where Exar Kun was hunted down and killed by the Knights due to his search for the Valley of the Jedi, a mythical place in Jedi history said to be the birthplace of life in the galaxy (similar to the Cradle of Life myth) he died upon a large temple on Yavin 4.
Now after this, the planet was said to be cursed by death and abandoned. A number of years later Jedi Knight students came to investigate the mysterious ruins.. at the top of the Massai temple Kun gave one of the student the new laws that were to goven the Sith from then on.
What is curious is that each time the Sith had such and event in their history, a similar event appears in Knight history causing very similar changes. Though more often they attributed this to enlightenment.
Now obviously those are ficticious stories created over the years for the teachings; but from a number of different writers, who don't have any connection some with books there were written at the same time showing similar plot-lines.. further more plotlines that are echoing in a more modern fashion those that happen in the major religions holy books.
Perhaps it could be me looking too deeply into this, but you can call it "The Force", "The Divine Spirit", or whatever... but there was something that rather than showing us what we have to do, guiding us through stories. Sometimes trying to explain history that is unexplainable without being there.
I have deep seeded beliefs in Christianity, however my views on the religion as a whole haven't exactly gone down well.
For example Revelations, seems to be a movie trailer for the rest of the book; with main events being over hyped and details that end up getting lost on the cutting room floow.
There's considerable question that the Celestial battle between god and his angels... well quite frankly why were they fighting?
The mis-translated bible, it notes that the evil one wished the earth for himself; however earlier in the bible you find that actually god has entrusted earth to him. He had no reason to fight for it, unless there was something else... something removed from the story.
And I've come to understand recently that not only does most of the bible accurately give details of history; but that the bulk of it, with the exception of Genesis is actually fairly modern history (no more than 3,500years in the past) with details we can trace back to actual world events from other more official documentation.
We can start to peice together how the real history played out compared to history and see that while we might not have found it as amazing as they did; we have to remember these weren't technologically advanced... in-fact if we went back in time and used a gun during the roman period we probably would've been seen as great magicians vengeful and working for god. As they would have no other plausable explaination.
What I'm trying to say really, is don't just a faith based on your own pre-context of it. There is quite a bit more deep seeded intrigue to each one than you might imagine.
In my eyes each religion is just too close in the details to really be very different. While on the surface they wildly change, and each one also seems to have a different meaning to any. It's actually the intollerance, which all of them say is wrong; is what causes so much stife.
