Christian Fundamentalist/Protestant/Hebrew Israelite Jedi
8 years 4 months ago #198042
by Br. John
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Many Christian Jedi maintain The Force is another name for The Holy Spirit. It does not matter what you hold Jediism to be. Way of Life, Philosophy, Religion or Code of Conduct - no problem.
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8 years 4 months ago - 8 years 4 months ago #198067
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I can only tell my story with Christianity and Jedi Way. It is very personally biased.
I tried to convert into Orthodox Christianity recently, thought I could be Orthodox Christian Jedi. An acquaintance of mine, who is a representative of church, spoke with me. His position was that orthodox Christianity possesses all the right answers and all other people are either wrong or heretics.
In my experience, I had deep existential journey into the dark and I faced spiritual questions that Christianity did not give me answers for. And so, I solved this questions myself. At some point I have discovered a spiritual path before me and had to choose, what will it be. I looked deep into myself and searched for a sole image, sole spark of light to guide me. And the most powerful light thing that I found was an image of a Jedi, a spiritual journeyman and warrior, who feels the spiritual ocean directly via same vibes which communicate music and inspiration.
Since then, I've walked Jedi Path and have learned to respect other religious traditions as long as they do not assault my beliefs. I've seen Force as a notion which can be accepted by both eastern and western beliefs. Something that can be experienced. Something that can be explored.
My christian acquaintance tried to "save" me from what is my nature, what makes me feel good and help people and love and persevere darkness and pain.
I do not know, whether it was his narrowness or narrowness of christian belief system. I know that many orthodox Christians would react this way. I believe that any Christianity is ok with Jedi Way, but few are the Christians who are capable of this.
My acquaintance showed fear, when he tried to frighten me (with hell and suffering) into Christianity.
He showed insincerity, when he failed to recognize negative sides of orthodox christian church as it exists in Russia nowadays.
He showed narrowness, when he disrespected Buddhism with no knowledge of it, making naive mistakes.
He showed aggressiveness, when I have defied his efforts to turn me.
They say about martial arts: you can choose whatever you want, but don't expect that your martial art is going to fight instead of you. There are great spiritual traditions and there are people, who fail to match them.
I tried to convert into Orthodox Christianity recently, thought I could be Orthodox Christian Jedi. An acquaintance of mine, who is a representative of church, spoke with me. His position was that orthodox Christianity possesses all the right answers and all other people are either wrong or heretics.
In my experience, I had deep existential journey into the dark and I faced spiritual questions that Christianity did not give me answers for. And so, I solved this questions myself. At some point I have discovered a spiritual path before me and had to choose, what will it be. I looked deep into myself and searched for a sole image, sole spark of light to guide me. And the most powerful light thing that I found was an image of a Jedi, a spiritual journeyman and warrior, who feels the spiritual ocean directly via same vibes which communicate music and inspiration.
Since then, I've walked Jedi Path and have learned to respect other religious traditions as long as they do not assault my beliefs. I've seen Force as a notion which can be accepted by both eastern and western beliefs. Something that can be experienced. Something that can be explored.
My christian acquaintance tried to "save" me from what is my nature, what makes me feel good and help people and love and persevere darkness and pain.
I do not know, whether it was his narrowness or narrowness of christian belief system. I know that many orthodox Christians would react this way. I believe that any Christianity is ok with Jedi Way, but few are the Christians who are capable of this.
My acquaintance showed fear, when he tried to frighten me (with hell and suffering) into Christianity.
He showed insincerity, when he failed to recognize negative sides of orthodox christian church as it exists in Russia nowadays.
He showed narrowness, when he disrespected Buddhism with no knowledge of it, making naive mistakes.
He showed aggressiveness, when I have defied his efforts to turn me.
They say about martial arts: you can choose whatever you want, but don't expect that your martial art is going to fight instead of you. There are great spiritual traditions and there are people, who fail to match them.
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8 years 4 months ago #198078
by Kit
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I grew up Christian. I don't adhere to it as my primary faith but I do appreciate it still. If you explained where you are seeing conflicts, perhaps I can help offer some different ways to view things.
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8 years 4 months ago #198080
by Alethea Thompson
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The book is specifically aimed at helping one determine whether or not they even WANT to look further into the Jedi Philosophy. It's a series of articles, one in particular actually addresses the problems that other people have had when it comes to determining whether or not the Jedi Path conflicts with their personal relationship with a deity (for the record, I identify as a Christian Jedi). The are other that help you better understand the flexibility of discovering what "the Force" is to you. Some of it is from my personal point of view, others of it is from the neutral stand point of addressing concerns that others have brought to me and how they decided to either leave the path because of it, or stay on the path because they reconciled the concepts together.
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8 years 4 months ago #198081
by Adder
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I'd be an RCC (Roman Catholic Church) Buddhist Pagan Jedi.. :blink:
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8 years 4 months ago #198121
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Lol, Adder. You have spiritual flash royal j-D
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