Hi Carlos. I'd guess you may receive different replies to this based on each person's definition of what it is to be a Christian. Different people define the essence of Christianity in different ways, and the degree of conflict experienced between embracing both that faith and Jediism depends heavily on how the responder would describe what it means to be Christian.
To me, being a Christian means following the teachings directly provided by Jesus as we know them. That is different from following the teachings of other people who write or speak of his life (including Paul). Those teachings encourage compassion, extended even to those who we may find irritating or offensive. Boiled down to their most basic form, Jesus himself summed them up as (1) love God, and (2) love other people. I don't find those in contradiction to Jediism at all.
Another person who believes that the heart of Christianity is defined by a war for our souls between God and a powerful fallen angel, and that the only way to convince God you are not on the side of that angel is to publicly confess your acceptance of Jesus as the only means of your rescue, would I suspect have more difficulty. Jediism would to him or her probably seem irrelevant, or perhaps even a dangerous distraction from the one true faith.
My resolution to the variance between those two views of the Christian faith rests in Matthew 25:31-46. Paul trumpeted loudly the necessity of worshipping Jesus in order to be spared the fate of eternal punishment, but the metaphorical account offered by Matthew is what Jesus himself had to say about it. Paul's words would imo conflict with Jediism as a legitimate faith tradition, but those of Jesus would not.
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