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21 Aug 2006, 1:58 am

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Since many of us here agree that the bible is an antiquated and obsolete book, lets start a new religion!! Since Star Trek was basically just a bunch of morality plays, with archetypal myths, let's debate the moral value of it.* Why not, it could'nt be any more of a waste of time then pointing out the obsolete morality of thr bible!!
Is the Bible that antiquated or obsolete. Just look at the DS9 series and the Bajorians and their faith in the prophets.


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05 Sep 2006, 6:32 pm

Get with the times, scapheap! :)

The Star Trek religion converted to Jedi years ago!

In the last couple of UK censuses and here in Australia, there has been a push for people to list their religion as Jedi so as to have it an officially recognised religion. 8)


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05 Sep 2006, 8:34 pm

BazzaMcKenzie wrote:
Get with the times, scapheap! :)

The Star Trek religion converted to Jedi years ago!

In the last couple of UK censuses and here in Australia, there has been a push for people to list their religion as Jedi so as to have it an officially recognised religion. 8)


Roddenberry is timeless, he inspired Lucas and therefore, Jedi is merely and offshoot of Kirk!! :wink: :roll: :lol:


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06 Sep 2006, 7:05 am

Where is Werbert? He's a trekky.

As a religion, Jedi has a lot going for it. It teaches you to fight for goodness and niceness instead of badness and evil, and you don't have to go to church on Sundays.


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06 Sep 2006, 10:21 pm

I take it you are saying this in a joking manner Scrapheap? However What religion ? Gene Roddenberry was humanist, open minded and not a big fan of theists.
Interview of Gene Roddenberry:
Writer, Producer, Philosopher, Humanist
http://www.philosophysphere.com/humanist.html
Humm and BazzaMcKenzie how is jedi better it still does the whole silly dark/light dance. And the jedi do have a temple and the lot of silliness and so do the Sith Lords.


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07 Sep 2006, 5:54 am

Here's a rather serious question for you all: what did you think of the third season of Enterprise? I thought it was a George-Bush-in-space theatre, breaking completely with the program of moral issues and logical dilemmas and going into the political justification game. Yuuuuuuuck!! ! I thought it was terrible that they had so much good action in it that I couldn't resist continue watching it. Anyone who didn't identify the captain with GWB (Great Wild Beast) and his actions with Iraqi bomb searches must be blind indeed. "We must find the weapon at any cost! Sometimes it takes excessive measures, but millions of lives are at stake here, so let's flush this guy out the airlock here and blow these people over here to smithereens, and oooh! what's that? what happens when you push - oops! Well, it's all in a day's work. It's good to be an American hero."

Otherwise, I'm all with you, ST as a religion is the new thing!