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The Force Of "Star Wars"
It's increasingly hard to believe that the Force "binds the galaxy together" in the end.
It remains merely a commodity, something that Jedi and Sith can get and learn to
manipulate for their own purposes, good or evil. In The Lord of the Rings and Raiders
of the Lost Ark, there was "another will at work," an Authority worth serving, a Higher
Being that could redeem a mess made by well-intentioned but insufficient heroes.
Phanton Menace told us that the Force has "a will." Why, then, do the Jedi not appeal
to it? Sith and Jedi—both of them corrupt—seek merely to control it. There's apparently
no Higher Power they believe can save them—not even in the afterlife. They're on their own.
Moreover, it's bewildering to hear Yoda nonchalantly claim that a Jedi should reject
"attachments," and that "death is natural." Why, then, is he distraught over the corpses
of murdered colleagues? Doesn't Luke save the galaxy in Episodes Five and Six by
rejecting that philosophy and serving his "attachment" to Han, Leia, and ultimately
his father? Death is unnatural … it was not a part of God's plan for creation. It's a
natural part of a fallen world, yes, but we recoil from it and grieve over it because
it is a flaw, not an ideal. It's evidence that the world needs of a bold, benevolent
redeemer, not an insensitive, dispassionate savior.
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