We Travel off the Beltway to the Hydian Way to sit down with Stephen Kent author of the new book How the Force Can Fix the World to discuss what lessons we can draw out of the texts of Star Wars as well as the bitter divides within its many generations of fans.
Stephen is the host of the Beltway Banthas Podcast which I’ve had the pleasure of being a guest on discussing an article I wrote over the summer. So, sit back and relax on the acceleration couch, fire up the holochess table and let’s ruminate on how the Force may just be showing us a path out of our present darkness.
Show Notes
How Star Wars Mirrors The American Culture Wars
Where the Divide in Star Wars Mirrors the Culture War
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I went to the opening day of star wars at the big Uptown movie theater and saw it something like 6 times that summer, BUT…
Why talk about the FORCE when you have Jesus Christ who actually rose from the dead? The evidence is actually quite strong ranging from his
– appearance to 500 eye witnesses and
– the fact that the tomb was empty and
– the fact that his followers were so convinced of his resurrection that they stuck to their belief even though almost all were killed for that conviction and
– the fact that a multitude of people have had life transforming encounters with that risen Christ and
– the fact that the latest science points pretty clearly to the existence of a creator (big bang) of great intelligence (anthropomophic fine tuning of the universe) that cares about the earth (fine tuning of the earth situation without which advanced life would be impossible) and that is actively involved in what happens in Earth’s natural history (the origin of life and mass speciation events like the Cambrian explosion that can’t be accounted for by the non-supernatural means). The resulting creator matches the description of Christian God.
Because Doug, there is more than one way to give lessons and some tools work better for
other people. That’s why.
When the topic turned to the question, “what movie would you choose to watch with your children?” I found relief in noting my choice was not deterministic. I knew instantly my choice. Galaxy Quest. Because I love that film and it’s appropriate for my children as well.
Great interview!
Great Choice, Chad!
Thanks for doing this episode. When I was listening to this, it reminded me of listening to Glen Greenwald… he can do a podcast that you think at first you will have absolutely no interest in and want to skip, but it always turns out to very relevant and informative. It has happened so many times with Greenwald that I just hit play with his new podcasts and don’t even bother to vet the topic… and I am finding your podcasts to be the same.