Why I Renounced Star Wars

A few weeks ago, I wrote about why I chose to delete my former Facebook account. All of the content I published and shared about natural healing was one of my primary reasons for getting rid of that account and everything associated with it. 

Another was my adulterous affair with science fiction. In particular, the Star Wars franchise.

If you regularly read my posts pre-Jesus encounter, then you will probably recall how much I really LOVED everything associated with Star Wars.

I shared cute stories about my earliest memories. 

Proudly posted pictures of anything related to it that I found while out and about doing life. 

Posted countdowns to new releases on the Disney+ Channel.

Eagerly engaged in discussions with others about the latest films and series. 

I had Star Wars clothing. Star Wars virtual reality games. Star Wars Monopoly. Star Wars movies (all of them). Star Wars ringtones. 

When I wanted to avoid calls from particular people I assigned them the Darth Vader ringtone to avoid answering the phone.

I went to the Star Wars themed symphonies. Dressed up along with my kids in Star Wars costumes and went trick or treating on Halloween (yet another idolatrous practice I renounced and repented of). 

I watched and re-watched the films and serial episodes more times than I can remember or count. 

I could quote whole segments of many of the films verbatim.

Proud of my fanaticism, I stood aghast at odd people who were not completely caught up in this pop culture phenomenon. 

People like my husband Martin. When we first got married I bargained with him to watch all the Rambo movies with him if he would watch all the Star Wars films with me.

He never kept his end of the bargain. A moral “failing” I reminded him of often. 

Now I realize, it was God protecting him from my mania.

With the intention of passing them down to my son, and then to his children, I’d even kept all the original Mattel toys I’d collected from when I was younger. 

Starships, cases, figurines, playsets. All kept in near pristine condition for over 40 years. 

There was a great appeal to the story line: ordinary people like myself becoming extraordinary and empowered by a mysterious force to both resist and overcome evil against all odds.

What’s not to like about that?

I can imagine what you’re thinking. “Dalila, now you’re going too far with this God and holiness stuff. You’re being ridiculous. It’s only entertainment!”

Please allow me a moment to convince you otherwise. These franchises and films are not simply “entertainment”. 

They are in reality part of a grand, coordinated scheme to distract and detract us away from the very real, supernatural things of God. 

They are also a strategic and sinister method of indoctrinating the masses to prepare us for one of the greatest Satanic deceptions ever perpetrated on mankind.  

But, before I explain how, let me share what happened. 

I did not come up with this conclusion on my own, nor could I have because I was too blinded by my obsession with this stuff and everything else related to outer space, extraterrestrials, other dimensions, and even quantum physics.

As part of my Holy Spirit-led sanctification process, I went through a purging of many things in our home. I hope to share more about what got thrown out as well as why those things had to be discarded another time.

But it was a deep and thorough cleaning. 

All in all, I would estimate that we threw away around $20,000+ worth of clothing, shoes, art, furnishings, products, toys, gadgets, electronic devices, books, films, music, and personal care products.  

For now though, I want to focus on Star Wars specifically.

Most of the things I was directed to throw out made perfect sense to me. 

Most. Not all.

Things pertaining to Harry Potter, for example, made sense because of the direct references to witchcraft and the occult in the films. The truth is, I’d resisted watching those films for many, many years. But over time, my aversion to them had diminished.

But Star Wars? 

I’d never seen any red flags or reason to avoid that.

What could possibly be wrong with it?

I didn’t understand immediately.

After going through my son’s room and throwing out one thing after another, I got to the drawers with all of my childhood Star Wars toys.

I hesitated and immediately started rationalizing why I should keep them. “These are just toys,” I thought. “I can probably hang on to these”.

Mark this warning, people of God. 

When the Lord directs your path, and you start wrestling internally against what you’ve heard or understood, then you’re not wrestling with flesh and blood at that moment.

In the second that I hesitated, a memory like a film came across my mind.

A flashback of the very first time that I’d ever ridden a roller coaster came into HD view. I was at Astroworld with my family, and had decided I was finally brave enough to get on “Greazed Lightnin” with my older sister and cousins. 

It seemed like a good idea at the time, but once I got strapped into the seat, the sudden realization that I was committed and couldn’t turn back hit me. 

Fear flooded my 7-year old soul. 

I began to panic.

What did I do? 

I began to say over and over to myself, “May the Force be with me,” in prayer-like fashion.

So, why did God choose to remind me of that moment?

Because when I was most fearful, I did not turn to God as a child. 

I turned to Star Wars.

Until I saw that memory in its true light, I never understood what that franchise really represented in my life.

Another idol.

A HUGE one.

As you may have guessed, my next action was to bag all that stuff up and dispose of it in the trash like the idolatrous garbage it truly was.

Shortly after that, I came to a stunning realization.

Remember what I wrote earlier about how the story line appealed to me? 

That it unfolded an epic story of good overcoming evil by some powerful, yet hidden and mysterious force?

That sure sounds familiar in light of what both the Old and New Testaments reveal, doesn’t it?

Stories of ordinary men and women, who, being transformed by the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit, could overcome and have victory over Satan and his hidden kingdom of darkness. 

Powerful people of God who could transform sticks to serpents, visit plagues on their enemies, split seas right down the middle, stop the sun midday, call down fire from heaven, multiply food, heal diseases, start earthquakes with their singing, and other seriously awesome feats.

Except to me those stories seemed like more of a fantasy than Star Wars did most of my life. I was taught stuff like that just didn’t happen any more.

So, my natural hunger for the supernatural things of God got redirected to and replaced with the counterfeit versions that Hollywood so expertly served up.

When you fill up on the counterfeit, you no longer have any appetite for the real thing. 

The religious and mystic overtones, as well as the universal appeal to the Star Wars franchise were intentional. 

Not only will a cursory look under the covers reveal that George Lucas based the Jedi’s disciplines on the occult practices of meditation and mindfulness, but that he also was inspired by eastern religious philosophies and mythology.

Isaiah 2:6 describes the wrath of God coming on his people for such reasons. “For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.”

Lucas is quoted as saying, "I wanted it to be a traditional moral study, to have some sort of palpable precepts in it that children could understand," said Lucas, in a recent New Yorker interview. "There is always a lesson to be learned. ... Traditionally, we get them from church, the family, art and in the modern world we get them from the media -- from movies."

Interesting. Lucas said that movies are the new morality teachers. 

His biographer, Dale Pollock, wrote, "The message of `Star Wars' is religious: God isn't dead, he's there if you want him to be." He goes on to write that Lucas put it this way: "The laws really are in yourself."

The faith in "Star Wars" is hard to label. The Force is defined as "an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us." It contains both good and evil. Jedi master Yoda clearly teaches a form of Buddhism. Yet the Lucas liturgy also proclaims "May the Force be with you," a variation on the Christian phrase "May the Lord be with you." The plot includes other symbols and themes from biblical faith. Lucas has embraced both "passive Oriental philosophies and the Judeo- Christian ethic of responsibility and self-sacrifice," according to Pollock. (Sourced directly from https://www.leaderu.com/humanities/mattingly.html)

Can you see how truth gets distorted, repackaged, and redistributed for mass consumption? 

That’s one of the Enemy’s oldest tricks in the book. 

And I fell for it…hook, line, and sinker.

The most glaring distortion in the series is this: good and evil are equal, yet opposing forces. 

Two sides of the same coin.

That my friends, is a ball-faced lie. One that only Satan, the Father of lies, would tell.  

But, it wasn’t just Star Wars that I needed to renounce and totally back away from.

It was also Marvel and DC Comics, the other movie franchises that I consumed like air and water. 

Imagine my surprise when I learned that the Marvel and DC Comic superheroes originated with or were inspired by the gods and goddesses of Egyptian, Norse, Greek and other ancient cultures! 

Gods and goddesses that were ACTUALLY worshiped by ancient peoples. Now, we worship the very same with our dollars, time, attention, and toy collections.

Every Christian should understand that the ancient gods worshiped by pagan peoples were actual demons. 

Here’s scriptural proof that these false gods were real demons:

Deuteronomy 32:16-17 “They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger. They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded”.

Psalm 106:37 “They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;”

1 Corinthians 10:20-21 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

In Revelation 9:20, it’s recorded that despite the wrath of God being poured out on earth, people will STILL refuse to stop worshiping demons! “The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,”

With all that in mind, think about how the one true God views our investment in this type of “entertainment” as we like to call it.

Do not believe for one second that God, who stated emphatically that His people are not to worship other gods, will look on these activities kindly.

Nor will he excuse or overlook them.

Please don’t remain in ignorance.

What we label entertainment is actually a ruse. An entrapment. Yet another clever deception of the enemy.

In short, it’s idolatry dressed up with special effects and multibillion dollar budgets.

And I ignorantly gobbled that up too.

These movie franchises have not only redirected our attention to demonic, counterfeit spirituality and power, but it has also been a clever way of preparing and spoon feeding the masses into accepting the belief that there is intelligent, alien life in other universes.

While we endlessly entertain ourselves, eating hot dogs, popcorn, and candy with our behinds caressed in plush-seating, the real war for souls is reaching a crescendo.

As more and more unusual things happen across the globe, the world governments will convince many that we are being visited by higher evolved creatures from other galaxies. This global deception is already being rolled out now.

Have you noticed the uptick in declassified reporting on UFOs / UAPs across every news outlet?

Most of the world will be primed and ready to swallow that entire lie because we've been conditioned to do so most of our lives.

But, you don’t have to fall for any of it anymore.

It’s time to wake up! Let loose of the things of this world, and come out of it altogether.

God will have no other gods, in any form, before Him.

For an excellent teaching series on what the Bible actually says about “aliens” and the like, check out this online teaching.