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      I don’t watch trailers to movies because I don’t like movies I know I’ll watch to get spoiled. I just groaned when I read that Palpatine had returned, and they put it in the opening scrawl!

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        What, you mean you missed the canonical Fortnite event of Palpatine’s voice ringing out across the galaxy? And then felt like you had somehow missed key plot events despite having watched all the movies because you didn’t participate in some fad videogame marketed to tweens? So it showing up in the opening crawl felt forced, unimaginative, and honestly just stupid?

        Yeah, that sounds like my experience too.

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      I really ponder how anyone over age 21 can interpret it any other way.

      Indoctrination from an early age explains it.

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        Santa and Easter Bunny we indoctrinate people into at a young age and we don’t have trouble explaining that they are fiction… still are useful stories.

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          Usually in those cases parents confess to the lie at some point or children find out from others that were confessed to. They’re also much easier to prove false, especially with modern cameras. Can’t do that retroactively

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      Community. They do it for other reasons than the stories. They will defend the stories and say they aren’t literal because you are on the outside. And once you are on the outside it’s usually where you stay.

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        I played in a church’s band for a while. It was easy money. Then they wanted someone who’d do it for free, so, y’know. I was happy to make room and not have to play horrible music.

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      The Torah and the Bible already have weird sex stuff in it. There’s relatively explicit stuff like the Song of Songs, but then again you also have weird nonsensical incest such as the daughters who get their father drunk to rape him for no reason whatsoever, which you cannot convince me wasn’t written because some Israeli writer was horny. Just people writing about weird kinks like we’ve seen people do ever since the internet went live, except that the fellas making up the religion needed texts to add to the lore and said “Fuck it, let’s get this one in too”.

      What I’m saying is that you just have to be born at the right historical time to get your kinks made part of religious canon.

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      Loll it has Native American fanfiction AND sci-fi too. Apparently God lives close to a star called kolob, and we’ll all good Mormons will be building planets someday.

      Also sex stuff. For good Mormons Mormon men

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    Not just Mormonism, all Christian and Islamic branches are basically fan fictions based on the original books.

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    The trilogy isn’t complete without a Jar-Jar Binks type character to play as the Antichrist who secretly rules the galaxy as a Master Sith Lord.

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    Isn’t Jesus the messiah in the Quran? Muhammad was just the messenger. In the Quran Jesus is literally called Al Masih, the messiah, and will ,according to the Quran, return to earth on the day of reckoning as the savior of Muslims.

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    Quran vs new testament is more like Enders Game vs Enders Shadow. Enders Game is about Ender, and Enders shadow is about Bean, but Ender’s significance is mentioned.

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    They’re all just the different movies of the Fast & Furious franchise. The plots don’t generally matter or connect to each other in spite of their common elements, everybody’s talking about family, people who haven’t looked into it assume it must have some redeeming qualities, characters die and come back when needed for the plot, once in a while they inexplicably fly or end up in space and Vin Diesel never loses a fight.

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    This is an interesting way of looking at these religions. From my limited knowledge it seems like a good high-level summary.

    It could be interesting to expand this to include Buddhism (Hong Kong cinema?), Hinduism (Bollywood?), Baháʼí (?), cults, etc. Not sure if the metaphor will stretch so far…

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    The funniest part about it all, is that the Muslim says that anyone that doesn’t believe is an infidel, yet the Jews think anyone that doesn’t believer is a dirty Gentile, I guess that makes Christians double filth?