How L3-37 Squares With Scripture

The latest droid sidekick we are introduced to in Solo is Lando’s First Mate L3-37, or L3 for short. The droid’s programming gives her a feminine personality and the film makers made her Star Wars’ first social justice warrior.

At one point, Lando asks L3 “You need anything?” and L3 replies back without missing a beat, “Equal rights.”

The Bible is not about being a social justice warrior since we are all created in the image of God and should be treated with respect and dignity.

Flying in the face of first-century society’s norms, Jesus first appeared to women after His resurrection (see Matthew 28:1-10, Mark 16:1-11, Luke 24:1-12, and John 20:1, 11-18).

At His birth, the angels appeared to the outcaste shepherds with the news of the Messiah’s birth.
In the New Testament, there are numerous places that show that we are to treat everyone with respect and dignity.

Paul shows us in Galatians 3:25-29 “But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.”

Paul is not saying that there is no physical or biological difference between people, he is saying that men and women are all equal in Christ, but there are still different roles and characteristics for each.

Paul also takes down the social-political divide between slaves and the free, and between Jews and the rest of humanity.

We “are all one in Christ Jesus” so let us start living that way.