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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1856565" data-attributes="member: 2205">Definately?  I'd say that's a bit strong.  Star Wars is very strongly secular, and with the exception of one reference:  Grand Moff Tarkin telling Vader that he's the only follower of "that religion" still remaining.  Whatever exactly "that religion" is; the Jedi?  Belief in the Force?  Either way, it's a very odd claim, and seems to indicate that Lucas hadn't really fleshed out the Star Wars setting as firmly as folks sometimes like to think.Other than that, there's no mention anywhere else in any of the movies about any kind of religion.  Now, if you buy into that whole EU hodge-podge, you might very well find some Star Wars religion references, but the EU is notorious for two things: 1) ending up wrong whenever Lucas makes a new movie, and 2) completely missing the point of what Star Wars is like.Personally, I have no use whatsoever for the EU.</blockquote>