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This week�s meme got my thinking about Han Solo one-liners. Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.  Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.  I've got a bad feeling about this. His quotes apply wonderfully to our world but I can�t quite embrace him as a skeptical role model because, in the Star Wars universe, his is dead wrong. The �hokey religion� in question, the Force, is true. Han had the right idea to doubt the Force because Jedi were inactive during his formative years making the extraordinary claims of the Force a matter of faith. He, rightly, came around when he witnessed his new friends levitating shit. Theists seem to think atheists are c...