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Originally Posted by #-3
it's almost like the Jedi are a meta commentary on real life religions
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They very much are based on the rigid unchanging doctrines or nearly every church.
I do think that they were really based on the Jesuits though.
As heroic as some of the individual Jedi were in the Republic era Jedi, as kind or good as some of the individuals might have been. The Jedi like the Catholic Church lives in a gold plated palace, awash in money, supporting a corrupt and unfeeling government.
The Jedi Order is the real villain of the GFFA and Luke was right, in their hubris they allowed evil to rise and were complicit in the suffering of trillions.
Anakin/Vader even said it in Dark Lord. He wanted to save Padme from death and Obi-Wan from ignorance. He wanted to reform the Jedi to rid the republic of corruption and war and suffering and people going through what he went through growing up.
Even in the Revenge of the Sith book during the duel, Anakin basically told Obi-Wan that he should flee, go and spend the rest of his life meditating. Anakin before he got what he felt was betrayed by his master didn't want to kill the only true father figure that he had in his life.