Can I be a Christian Buddhist Jedi? I think I want that to be my religion

[Melodybe]

I love Jesus, I like the new Testament. I think Jesus gives us the best example of how to treat other people: love your enemies, help the poor and all that jazz.

I like reincarnation, it is only way for me to describe the connections I feel to people in my life. I like the philosophies of the Buddha and the Tao; both are the best at finding your inner peace.

I love the Jedi religion. Star Wars was the first religious movie that I was exposed to. It shaped my hatred for fascism and made me believe in the ultimate underdogs.

So from here on out...

I am a Christian Buddhist Jedi.

Since I made it up, can I be a high priestess?

[Ladyhawk]

1. In Australia, I believe there was a silly effort to have a lot of people

list their religion as "Jedi," so it would have to be placed on gov't documents or something like that. :) I believe enough people said they were of the Jedi faith, but gov't didn't like it. I can't remember the story exactly. Someone will come along who does.

[evlbstrd]

2. Snopes says it ain't so.

http://www.snopes.com/religion/jedi.htm

[Ladyhawk]

8. Dammit, why don't I ever check there before posting? :)

Snopes is a great resource. I should use it more often.

[evlbstrd]

9. It's like spell check.

Print, then, D'oh!

[Ladyhawk]

10. I'm such a good speller I don't use spell check much. But I can't know

the facts about everything!!! Of course, I don't know how to spell some words...hmmmm.

Can someone fwap me next time I do this and tell me to go to snopes? I hate getting my facts wrong. As one DUer's sig line states, "You are entitled to your own opinions; you are not entitled to your own facts."

At least I was smart enough to say I couldn't remember what the true deal was.

[evlbstrd]

11. I like to think I'm a good speller, too.

Sometimes the keyboard gets in the way.
Don't be embarrassed. Didn't we all think Kerry won the election?

[sweetheart]

14. But jedi did get huge numbers on the census

Snopes merely says it does not get "offical status", and does not
refute that on the last UK census, a significant set of the population
said they were "jedi".

[lenidog]

3. I was flipping through the channels and Discovery

had some show on about "Star Wars." They were talking about the Jedi and George Lucas was saying how his inspiration for the Jedi came from Shaolin Monks who are Buddhists. SO, the answer to your question is a definite yes. May the force be with you always.

[madrchsod]

4. sounds better than being a methodist

[Melodybe]

5. Definately better than Baptist

[Tux]

6. 2 words for what you said

Unitarian Universalism. Also United Church of Christ and Society of Religious Friends.

More than 2 words but hey, I can't count.

If you make a functional lightsaber, let me know.

[Hardrada]

12. FGC Friends

There are some evangelical Quaker branches not as meditative.

[Up2Late]

7. No, Jedi's are Buddhists.

Spock and Vulcan's in general, were Buddhist too. What? You think Hollywood Script writers have time to create a wise and logical philosophy/religion for a Sci-fi T.V. Show or Blockbuster movie?

[NMMNG]

13. You can be anything you want to be

Just don't let the fundies find out--they'll spend the rest of their days trying to 'save' you from your 'cult' :eyes:

[sweetheart]

15. Religion and beliefs

Your religious beliefs sound wise, high priestess. You become what
you "think" and thought is the fruit of intention.

When you cut through the bull of any religion, it ultimately is a way
of living, not thinking, as the power of intention is in action.

Wallpaper can be printed with lovely flowers, but you must surrender
wallpaper to walk in a flower garden.

[Melodybe]

16. Want to join? its free, unlike most religions you are not obligated to

ever give one cent to be a Christian Buddhist Jedi.

[Maat]

17. I've decided I'm a New Thought Unitarian-Universalist.

So, I say, 'Go for it.'

(The New Thought comes from New Thought churches, such as Church of Religious Science - www.rsintl.org - I like the positive thinking part. But I also like going to Unitarian-Universalist churches; so, I am a New Thought Unitarian-Universalist. New Thoughters believe, 'As you have a new thought, so shall you have a new experience.')

[sweetheart]

18. Sure

Though i've got a feeling that it will cost everything, a total
surrender of my ego and everything that this body-mind is attached to.
I expect that this religion will demand a spiritual death and a sort
of rebirth, ever so naturally, as the truth rises up in ones heart
and defeats the mind and its preconceptions.

Oh if money were all that was involved, then my ego could be safe
behind its wall... but rather the toll is so much larger that a crown
or a sovereign. And i pay it gladly.

What is the price to be receptive to all of life and not judge, but to
merely accept with an open heart, the way things are. And in that
feminine receptivity, this jedi sees the balance of a patriarchal world.

namaste,
-s

[Maat]

19. Great ideas there.

I love, 'Namaste!'

I'm going to Native-American-style drumming this Saturday with my drum from the African store (sort of creating my own spirituality).

Peace and Blessings (for the Spirit in me recognizes the Spirit in You),

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Yes, you can do that :^)

[Coexist]

21. sure- do you want your creation myth in all the textbooks in Georgia?

[aneerkoinos]

22. Gnostic

You will also find that your religion is quite close to Gnosticism:

http://www.gnosis.org/

And Sufis are cool too. And Spinoza. I'm reading Spinoza right now and he's a gass, very Buddhist Spinoza's philosophy is, yes.