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I believe it was also said by Ackbar, as well as Han (and maybe Lando) at some point.
Anyway, I can see how it's felt that the Force has a more religious connotation. It certainly feels very mystical. I'm sure this is owed to the way the stories were presented - in a mythological way. It's more basic, as you say, with the fight between light and dark, and has a lot more connections (not the best word, but I'm still half asleep, so forgive me) to mythological stories, what with the old wizard, the princess, the evil prince, the dragon and what have you.
Now that's not to say that the OT's lack of midichlorians has a religious connotation, it's simply that the Force (and the story) were presented in a more mystical, more ethereal way. Now, contrast and compare that to the PT, we can see that it's different - as was noted on Beyond The Films, with Mark, Nathan and Pete, the PT was more of a tragedy (not of Darth Plagueis).
Personally, I'm okay with midichlorians. I like them. Everything - in our universe - has a scientific explanation; it's merely that, for some things, we haven't discovered it yet. I don't see why the Force - and the midichlorians - should be any different.
And on the subject of Darth Plagueis, it gave me a deeper sense of understanding of what it means to bring balance to the Force. I remember on TOS, we'd discuss what exactly that meant. Whether it meant the number of Jedi vs Sith, or whether it means to have the Sith wiped out completely (if I remember correctly, this was GL's explanation. This doesn't correspond to the western way we perceive balance, yet it does so with the eastern philosophies). Now I think of it more as a case of having nothing at all to do with the Sith, as such as it does have to do with that rend in the Force, and the expansion of the dark side of the Force. With the defeat of Sidious and Vader, their feeding of that ceased, and Luke's feeding of the light side into it balances it out, so that there were equal measures of the dark and light.
Anyway, I think I got away from the original subject, so I'll stop.
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