"the Force" as an impersonal power
http://thespiritofprophecy.com/georgelucas1.htm Star Wars: One World Religion According To George Lucas
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The God of Forces
"May the Force be with you." The entire storyline of Star Wars is based upon the ability of the "good", personified in Luke, to defeat the "evil", personified in Darth Vader. As anyone alive the past decade knows, Luke ends up being the son of Darth Vader. The message is simple: it's all relative. Darth and Luke are two from the same. It's the Yin and Yang. Notice how the definition of Yin Yang even makes direct reference to the "forces":
"In Chinese philosophy, these terms represent the two complementary forces in the universe that together form the basis of everything: yin is female, passive, dark, cold or wet, and negative; yang is masculine, active, bright or light, warm or dry, and positive." 7
This idea of "forces" being a "God", denying God's very real personality and relationship with man, is the real idea behind Humanism and the whole Secularist world view that has engulfed the minds of Americans by and large. One of the most influential men of the 20th century is John Dewey. Thought by many non-Christians to be the greatest American philosopher in our short history, Dewey's confession of faith sounds eerily similar and demonstrates that the position Lucas holds is pervasive throughout modern American academia. Dewey stated:
"But this idea of God, or of the divine, is also connected with all the natural forces and conditions--including man and human association--that promote the growth of the ideal and that further its realization. We are in the presence neither of ideals completely embodied in existence nor yet of ideals that are mere rootless ideals, fantasies, utopias. For there are forces in nature and society that generate and support the ideals. They are further unified by the action that gives them coherence and solidity. It is this active relation between ideal and actual to which I would give the name "God." I would not insist that the name must be given." 8
This is exactly what we find in the Unitarian Universalist movement. A position in total agreement with the Occult, New Age, Buddhist position taken by George Lucas and found in his Star Wars series.
Star Wars presents "the Force" as an impersonal power that is made up of both sides of all that exists. The Bible says that this Buddhist/ New Age God of forces will be the religion of the man who will come upon the scene at the end of time and envelope all world political and religious power into one oligarchy of which he will ascend as supreme ruler (Daniel 11:38). He will eventually declare Himself to be God, just before being destroyed (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
George Lucas is just one of millions who are unwittingly paving the way for this final world religion (2 Thessalonians 2:7-12).