Jediism's central discipline is a careful refusal to make the Force into a god. The Temple of the Jedi Order's doctrine states belief in the Force and in the inherent worth of all life within it, and its clergy correct new members who address it in prayer or expect it to answer. What is claimed is a field generated by living things which can be attended to and aligned with — closer to qi or to a Stoic pneuma than to a deity — and the practice that follows is attention rather than petition. A minority of Jedi hold the Force to be a useful metaphor and nothing more, and the two readings coexist inside the same congregations. This is precisely the ambiguity the Charity Commission fastened on in 2016 when it found that Jediism could be followed as a secular belief system.