Poll: Tesco bans a "Jedi Knight" from their store

[WrongSprite]

<quote=Tesco> Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all went hoodless without going to the Dark Side.

I no longer believe the story after reading that.

 

[WrongSprite]

A Tesco spokesman said: "We would ask Jedis to remove hoods. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all went hoodless without going to the Dark Side."

That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.

Oh, and Jedi is not a religion. I don't care if there are documents that state it actually is. It is not. You cannot found a religion based on a movie.

On a side note, I wonder how many of them will play The Old Republic? Silly me, what a dumb question...

Well from my point of view, Christianity is based upon thin air...so Jedi actually makes slightly more sense to me.

I don't want to be flamed for that, I just see it as a valid point.

 

[theklng]

their store, their rules, their potential loss of customers.

 

[chronobreak]

Well from my point of view, Christianity is based upon thin air...so Jedi actually makes slightly more sense to me.

I don't want to be flamed for that, I just see it as a valid point.

From your point of view? What point of view is that exactly? You can have whatever view you want, but if it's wrong, expect to be called out on it. As was previously stated, the Bible contains many true, proveable elements such as people and places. How is that thin air? Star Wars, on the other hand, while it may be tangible as a movie (just as the Bible is tangible as a book) contains things that have never happened, that was intended as fiction.

Yes, I am aware there are grandiose things that stick out in the Bible that could have never possibly happened, but could you really say that a work intended as ficiton as opposed to a work intended as a means of divine instruction have the same credibility?

 

[WrongSprite]

Well from my point of view, Christianity is based upon thin air...so Jedi actually makes slightly more sense to me.

I don't want to be flamed for that, I just see it as a valid point.

From your point of view? What point of view is that exactly? You can have whatever view you want, but if it's wrong, expect to be called out on it. As was previously stated, the Bible contains many true, proveable elements such as people and places. How is that thin air? Star Wars, on the other hand, while it may be tangible as a movie (just as the Bible is tangible as a book) contains things that have never happened, that was intended as fiction.

Yes, I am aware there are grandiose things that stick out in the Bible that could have never possibly happened, but could you really say that a work intended as ficiton as opposed to a work intended as a means of divine instruction have the same credibility?

Your post seems to be based on the bible. If you re-read mine, I was talking about Christianity. Which is based on God. And from my point of view, God doesn't exist.

 

[Spudgun Man]

I laughed for about a whole quater of an hour when I read this in the local newspaper.

The response form Tesco is priceless.

 

[chronobreak]

Your post seems to be based on the bible. If you re-read mine, I was talking about Christianity. Which is based on God. And from my point of view, God doesn't exist.

It doesn't matter, in terms of Christianity, you cannot seperate the two. The Bible is the written word of God, and is central to the faith. I don't care what you think about God, that is also not what we were discussing. Also, you failed to answer my question. Could you really say that a work intended as ficiton as opposed to a work intended as a means of divine instruction have the same credibility?

 

[sms_117b]

To be fair, a Jedi is meant to be a passifist, so a real one would have taken the hood down, or used a mind trick to tell them he didn't need to.

 

[WrongSprite]

Your post seems to be based on the bible. If you re-read mine, I was talking about Christianity. Which is based on God. And from my point of view, God doesn't exist.

It doesn't matter, in terms of Christianity, you cannot seperate the two. The Bible is the written word of God, and is central to the faith. I don't care what you think about God, that is also not what we were discussing. Also, you failed to answer my question. Could you really say that a work intended as ficiton as opposed to a work intended as a means of divine instruction have the same credibility?

If I don't think that God exists, then neither do I think that the Bible is the written word of God. So to me, it carries about as much credibility as The Empire Strikes Back.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Whats wrong with Muslim women wearing a black veils concealing all their face but their eyes, if people want to believe in the force, what makes that so different in the sense of strangeness than beleiveing in a being that controls everything? Infact I feel like converting to Jedi Knight

 

[Instant K4rma]

Is this serious? A serious Jedi religion? Well, I guess this is my fun fact of the day.

 

[joystickjunki3]

Not cool, man. Not cool.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Your post seems to be based on the bible. If you re-read mine, I was talking about Christianity. Which is based on God. And from my point of view, God doesn't exist.

It doesn't matter, in terms of Christianity, you cannot seperate the two. The Bible is the written word of God, and is central to the faith. I don't care what you think about God, that is also not what we were discussing. Also, you failed to answer my question. Could you really say that a work intended as ficiton as opposed to a work intended as a means of divine instruction have the same credibility?

If I don't think that God exists, then neither do I think that the Bible is the written word of God. So to me, it carries about as much credibility as The Empire Strikes Back.

except the fact that you can prove many of the events in the bible. like the fact that Jesus lived, that Noah's Flood happened, that the seven plagues affected Egypt, that the Nile really did recede allowing people to cross it, that there really were pillars of fire and smoke

they are a collection of myths based on real events, it's just at the time people didn't know how to actually describe them.

yet with the Star Wars series, we can prove everything is false

 

[WrongSprite]

Your post seems to be based on the bible. If you re-read mine, I was talking about Christianity. Which is based on God. And from my point of view, God doesn't exist.

It doesn't matter, in terms of Christianity, you cannot seperate the two. The Bible is the written word of God, and is central to the faith. I don't care what you think about God, that is also not what we were discussing. Also, you failed to answer my question. Could you really say that a work intended as ficiton as opposed to a work intended as a means of divine instruction have the same credibility?

If I don't think that God exists, then neither do I think that the Bible is the written word of God. So to me, it carries about as much credibility as The Empire Strikes Back.

except the fact that you can prove many of the events in the bible. like the fact that Jesus lived, that Noah's Flood happened, that the seven plagues affected Egypt, that the Nile really did recede allowing people to cross it, that there really were pillars of fire and smoke

they are a collection of myths based on real events, it's just at the time people didn't know how to actually describe them.

yet with the Star Wars series, we can prove everything is false

Please, please tell me that was a joke...

Yes, Jesus lived. Doesn't make him the son of God, doesn't mean he can do magic tricks.
Also, if you genuinely believe that there's proof of Noah's flood....I.... there's just so much wrong with that, I don't know where to start. Same with the seven plagues. The Nile receding is just a natural phenomenon.

Also, the point has, in a way, been missed. They may be a series of myths based on real events, but why that makes them the written word of God, I'll never know.

 

[Captain_Caveman]

Religion or no that man was wearing a large hood that concealed his face, which is against store policy because security cameras can't see his face and identify him on cctv should he commit a crime. Being part of a religion dosent excuse you from the law or the laws of a shop. Period.

LMAO!!!

laws of a shop? shops dont have laws. they can have policies, but that's a FAR cry from a law.
and shops cant discriminate because of race, religion or creed. that's a LAW. so how does that fit?

 

[Captain_Caveman]

Your post seems to be based on the bible. If you re-read mine, I was talking about Christianity. Which is based on God. And from my point of view, God doesn't exist.

It doesn't matter, in terms of Christianity, you cannot seperate the two. The Bible is the written word of God, and is central to the faith. I don't care what you think about God, that is also not what we were discussing. Also, you failed to answer my question. Could you really say that a work intended as ficiton as opposed to a work intended as a means of divine instruction have the same credibility?

I know u were replying to someone else, but i just have to say. Um, you're the first person i've ever heard say that the bible is "the written word of God"

People wrote the bible, not god. Supposedly they wrote it based on events they witnessed & took part in. But God did not toss the bible down from a cloud.

Something that really bugs me about the belief that the bible was "written by God" is that it imparts the assumption that God's meaning couldn't have been mistook or misinterpreted by any of the scribes who wrote the books. Not to mention all the translations. Where are the original books, how can they even be validated?

I'm not saying im not a believer. I do believe in God. I just think that the bible is not an aboslute truth & is definitely not written by God's hand.