The awkward fact at the centre of Jediism is that its central concept was written by a screenwriter in the 1970s, and Jedi handle it more gracefully than outsiders expect. They do not claim the films are scripture, do not treat George Lucas as a prophet, and generally hold that the films described something already true in the way a novel can describe grief accurately without inventing grief. The Force as they use it is assembled from Taoist qi, Stoic pneuma and a general Western esoteric vitalism, all of which predate the films by a long way. Where this leaves them legally is unsettled: no court has yet been asked whether a doctrine can be religious if its vocabulary is copyrighted, and the Charity Commission decision of 2016 did not reach the question.