"George Lucas is the creator of Star Wars as well as its "gospel". He explained to "Time" magazine his motivation for making the films, "I was trying to say in a very simple way, knowing that the film was made for a young audience, that there is a God and there is both a good side and a bad side. You have a choice between them, but the world works better if you're on the good side. It's just that simple."

"But is that the simple truth? The central religious figure in the Star Wars gospel of Lucas is, of course the deity called the Force. Was it created by Lucas as a make believe god with imaginary powers and characteristics? Or is the Force a model of God as actually perceived by George Lucas? Marcia Lucas, his former wife, indicated to "Time" magazine that the Force is very real to George and that he believes in it, "George says he doesn't, because he thinks people will consider him a freak if he does. But deep down, part of his unconscious believes in it, I think."

"Dave Pollock, who interviewed Lucas in great length in preparing his biography, writes that Lucas' concept of the the Force was heavily influenced by Carlos Castaneda's Tales of Power, the book about a Mexican sorcerer, Don Juan, who uses the phrase "life force."

""The Force," wrote Pollock, "embraces passive Oriental philosophies and the Judeo-Christian ethic of responsibility and self-sacrifice. Yoda's philosophy is Buddhist - he tells Luke that the Force requires him to be calm at peace, and passive.. Because the Force can be manipulated for good or evil purposes, it possesses no morality of its own.. While the Force is a composite god of many religions and philosophies - including Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity it does not clearly represent any one deity. It certainly does not represent the God of the Bible.." (Colorado Christian News, Frank Allnutt - April 1999)

The Bible, in describing the Antichrist, he is said to honor the God of forces in these Scriptures: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honor the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things." (Daniel 11:37,38)

A strange description of Mormonism came from the magazine WIRED, July 1999: ".. The Mormons have a fixation on departed souls.. 2 billion names have been made available on Internet to the general public. Mormons sport 3,000 Family History centers, mini archives that stretch from Utah to Europe to Tonga - franchises of the dead.. Genealogy has quietly become a national compulsion. Nearly half the Americans interviewed for a Maritz Marketing Research study a few years back expressed interest in their roots.. "The real importance of online genealogy is the connections people make.. the LDS Church is now a multinational EVANGELICAL CORPORATION (Mormons are not proclaiming the Christian Gospel, they have another Jesus, how can they be evangelicals) with a net worth in the billions, forever replenished by the extraordinary industry of believers. A favorite church symbol is the beehive (Masonic).

Next the editor of WIRED Magazine "tells of a band of Hebrews who deserted a corrupt Jerusalem and made their way to the American continent more than 2,000 years before Columbus. When this clan of Israelites arrived in the New World, God commanded them to fashion and engrave metal plates to preserve religious documents and ancestral genealogies... (This has not been proven to this day - the Book of Mormon has been proven to be a fraud see books available on our website http://members.aol.com/lighttolds )

"Mormon religious practices known as the salvation of the dead (The editor is right there, it is a Mormon religion unique to itself. The Bible does not offer salvation to the dead after they have died) Genealogical research is a sacred activity (for Mormons). The goal, after all, is to save everybody before the end of time, cobbling together one huge planetary family that stretches all the way back to Adam and Eve.. (We cannot save anyone)

"Mormons perform between 10 and 11 million temple ordinances a year, but the 50 - odd temples around the globe cannot keep up. (It is probably the other way around, they need people's names of dead individuals to keep the ordinances supplied. Most Mormons don't like to get involved in this work. A lot of it is done by non members. I used to work in their library. It all sounds good)

"President Hinckley said the decision to open the books to the public was made by the Lord. (The Lord doesn't want us to do genealogy according to His book).

"Mormons believe it is human destiny to seed our genetic lines throughout the galaxy. They are like "Christian" Extropians... (Wonder if President Hinckley told him that one too?)

(Here is one reason they might be doing this): "MyFamily.com, a genealogy site.. eighty days after MyFamily.com launched, 500,000 people had signed up. The profit potential is clear to investors.. they netted $12.3 million.

"Church members believe that there is an intergalactic family headed by God that exists on multiple worlds," Ivie explains. This family exists throughout the universe, throughout all of space." (Now you know why we have Star Wars!! Our adversary is quite subtle. The Mormon religion should really appeal to the younger generations).

"I am convinced there are forms other than the purely electromagnetic, forms where communication occurs through the spirit inside of us," he says. "The Internet is still electromagnetic communication..

"The gathering and forging of our ancestral links into a planetary family is, for Mormons, an ultimately millennarian operation, one that sweeps up technology into its grand vision of the kingdom ahead. Joseph Smth himself proclaimed that the salvation of the dead was necessary to usher in the last days. " the dispensation of the fullness of times." And one sure sign of the fullness of times it seems, is the fullness of databases.. (Wired, by Erik Davis, July 1999)

Editor's note: comments in parenthesis and bold lettering added by editor.