In a 1999 interview with journalist Bill Moyers, Star Wars director George Lucas said, “I put the Force into the movie to try to awaken a certain kind of spirituality in young people—more a belief in God than a belief in any particular religious system.” [Christianity Today]
Fantastic. God is so much bigger and better than a religious system. But has this left us with a generation that who sees God more as fate than as an intelligent and purposeful deity?