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| Should be Called Star Wars: Stop Trying
To Hold My Hand! |
Sister Kaitlyn Burke
has recently returned from serving for 18 months in the South Dakota, West
mission. She writes Zion’s best movie
reviews for Zion’s Finest News Source.
I told my family that if they agreed to do another hour of
role-plays from Preach My Gospel then
I would go see Star Wars: The Force
Awakens with them. In case any of you are thinking about seeing it, here’s
my review.
The movie’s overall message did not offend my spirit. In
fact, for those who are attuned, they can see that this is what God wants you
to get from the movie: if you are a scavenger, living off of the discarded
scraps of others and never getting the real value for your work, or if you find yourself
fighting on the wrong side of the battle between good and evil, then now is the
time to abandon your current life, follow the Force/Holy Ghost, and enter the
mission field. Let’s face it—if you don’t leave now, the Lord might destroy
that whole place!
The movie also provides a clear warning to parents about not
letting their children get off on the wrong path like Han and Leia’s son. What
could have led him to such evil? Well, not only did he not go on a mission, but
he learned evil instead of good. Take that as you will, but it probably means
that he went to some overly permissive, sinful college like the University of
Utah, Utah State, or BYU in Provo. Parents—if you are not going to protect
children by sending them to a place where their agency will be used to always
confidently and easily only choose the right, like BYU-I, then if they toast
your insides with a lightsaber then that’s pretty much your fault.
As you can guess, I’ve been saving the most important, the
crucial moment of the movie, for last. And you all know what I’m talking about,
so I will just say that if she doesn’t want to hold his hand she shouldn’t have
to. I mean they just met and she hardly knows him. Who knows where that hand
has been? Even if he’s cute or fun, or even if her parents might really, really
like him, if she doesn’t want to hold his hand then she should just be able to
say “I don’t want to hold your hand” and everyone should be okay with that.
They shouldn’t say that it is okay for you to hold hands with him if she doesn’t
feel comfortable with that yet and everybody should just slow down and not
pressure her so much to just go and hold hands with anybody who happens to be
running around with her, even if everyone thinks that is it no big deal, so
just cool it people!
I’d say that the movie was okay, but given the choice of
seeing it and being back in Hot Springs or Oglala really fighting the First
Order that is sin, fear, and ignorance, give me the mission field any day!
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