LIVE TONIGHT! 22nd March Huffington Post Live: Star Wars Is a Religion

I was impressed. The producers were great and I had an extensive pre-show interview with one of them. That's how the Joseph Campbell segment got on there. It's a very good deal for us.

Congratulations Br. John, you made every point clear and that is important. Now get prepared to get hordes of newcomers.

This was an amazing interview all the way 'round, and each one of you had something educational to say. I think that Alexandra was well-spoken and had a lot of interesting things to say, and Patrick made a few good points (especially in regard to the story of wearing of hoods), but I think that Br. John brought the most (and most varied) information to the discussion.

It was an amazing interview, and I learned a lot about other perspectives, and I'm sharing it with other friends, because it was a very informative interview all around. Good job!

steamboat28 wrote: This was an amazing interview all the way 'round, and each one of you had something educational to say. I think that Alexandra was well-spoken and had a lot of interesting things to say, and Patrick made a few good points (especially in regard to the story of wearing of hoods), but I think that Br. John brought the most (and most varied) information to the discussion.

It was an amazing interview, and I learned a lot about other perspectives, and I'm sharing it with other friends, because it was a very informative interview all around. Good job!

Congrats!

I have to say a job well done. Br. John, you were amazing and think you brought the entire idea and faith to light in a way others could not only understand, but appreciate our thoughts and beliefs.

Absolutely wonderful. Though, I do wish they had let John chime in after Alexandra took his "jedi heaven" crack too literally. I don't think she understood that was just a part to his story retelling and not an actual belief. It even looked like John kind of shook his head a little, lol. Could be wrong, though

That was quite well delivered ...

I listened to it again this morning. If there was some intention to ridicule or berate, Br. John made these eventual intentions much more difficult to execute.

Something which I felt particularly well done was the explanation of how we do not promote "believe this and not that" in the TotJO - that one can be a Jedi of ANY other faith.

The Campbell-Watts basis, and not simply Star Wars, for Jediism was well emphasised also. Bravo ...

Over all, very well done.

"before 1999" *tear to eye* Br. John, I could kiss you for that- thank you for making it clear that we aren't a group that came about because of that darned 2001 census. And thank you for pointing out that ToTJO and CoJ aren't the only groups. *hugs*

First a BBC article, and then this great interview. People are starting to know TotJO!

The sad thing is... look at those [urk=http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/star-wars-is-a-religion/5149087e2b8c2a28da000155]comments[/url], for example this one:

Yes Star Wars is a religion. George Lucas is its god. Think about it. He has created an entire universe filled with worlds, characters, Philosophy and scenarios with himself as absolute creator.

There will always be things like that though...

There are a few more media things being talked about, details will be released when they are published