It absolutely does. It is intrinsically linked to the logic that you should not sleep with anyone you would be horrified to have a child with. All women should understand that she can get pregnant even when on birth control.

Not teaching abstinence is a big part of why people think there is such thing as safe sex. (Spoiler warning: that isn't a real thing.) And the idea of safe sex is why women engage in risky and reckless sexual behavior.

In many, many fantasy works, if religion comes up at all, it won’t really mean much of anything. Religion is basically a throwaway line. It’s basically like “oh by the way, there’s a polytheistic religion and the gods are probably definitely real, now back to completely ignoring this”. That’s if it gets mentioned at all. Having once been religious myself, this does not feel like the characters are actually religious. The religion in these works doesn’t have meaning.

Star Wars does not do that. The heroes are religious. Instead of it basically just being a throwaway line, it affects a lot. It affects their behavior and their beliefs. The Jedi live in a Temple. They see all life as sacred, so they usually try to avoid killing. They also spend time trying to save as many lives as possible (see all the times Jedi saved clones’ lives as an example). Their religion values teaching, so they often are teaching to show that they care. Their religion matters.

The religion matters for those who have been in the religion for as long as they can remember (such as Obi-Wan) and it matters for converts (such as Anakin and Luke).

Anakin converts into the Jedi religion when he is a child. He goes a lot of the normal Jedi stuff such as growing up as a Padawan, being assigned missions by the Council, and having the entire Jedi community there for him. His whole dilemma is that he wants be a Jedi and married to Padme, even though Jedi aren’t supposed to be married. If being a Jedi wasn’t meaningful to him, he’d probably have just chosen Padme without there being a fuss.

Luke converts when he’s an adult (by our standards). He doesn’t have the same normal Jedi stuff Anakin did. The Jedi community has been wiped out, he doesn’t spend/get much time with his masters, and there isn’t a Council to assign him mission. He gets assigned on missions by the Rebellion (and one time himself). But being a Jedi is meaningful to him to. He told Palps to his face “I am a Jedi” in what was an amazing moment (until the lightning).

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2x Copa Americas.

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"i think god hates me"—go to adoration

"it's been x years"—go to adoration

"i can't feel god in my hurt"—go to adoration

"my relationships feel lonely"—go to adoration

"i think god is cruel, or neglectful, or negging"—go to adoration

"the locusts consume too much of me"—go to adoration

"my thrumming heart is leaky"—go to adoration