There are issues in realigning previously nebulous Star Wars theological concepts along the lines of a traditional religion – and fuzzy storytelling leads to fan angerJust prior to the release of final year’s The Force Awakens,Star Wars creator George Lucas revealed his major concern was that the Force, that nebulous metaphysical energy field whose presence powers both the good-hearted Jedi and evil Sith in the long-running space opera saga, and didn’t “get muddled into a bunch of gobbledegook”. Related: Rogue One: A Star Wars legend: five things we learned from the latest trailer The Force is basically in Star Wars like a religion,and they’re losing their faith in the period that we start the movie. We were trying to find a physical location we could disappear to that would speak to the themes of losing your faith and the choice between letting the Empire win, or evil win, or good prevailing. It got embodied in this place we called Jedha.
In a wider level,there must be loads of people who just believe in the Jedi and believe in the Force and hold been affected by it. whether it’s a really ancient religion, as Obi-Wan Kenobi said, or it’s got to exist in thousands or millions of people in the galaxy.
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Source: theguardian.com