star Wars...stay away from this thread if you have geek phobia!
According to wikipedia -
The Force is life, and life is the Force. Some think of the Force as a sentient entity that may be capable of intelligent thought—almost as if it were a sort of God—while others simply consider it a thing that can be manipulated.
The four aspects of the Force are as follows: the Light Side (often referred to as "The Force"), the Dark Side, the Unifying Force, and the Living Force. The first two angles are concerned with the moral compass of the Force in its various manifestations. The Light Side of the Force is the facet of that energy field aligned with good, benevolence, and healing. The Dark Side of the Force is the element aligned with fear, hatred, aggression, and malevolence.
In theology, dualism can refer to ditheism: the belief that there are two basic principles in the universe, usually personified as deities, that work in polar opposition to each other. For example, one god is good, the other evil; or one god works for order, the other for chaos. Both the Zoroastrian religion, three millennia old and still extant, and the essentially dead gnostic religion (and its variations such as, Manichaeism, Bogomils, Catharism, etc.) are dualistic, as is Mandaeanism.
The concept of "The Force" is a ditheistic one.
So is Star Wars a heretical creation from a Christian point of view?



