Other practices rooted in Taoism (or, Daoism) are martial arts like “tai chi,” where “chi” is basically “the force” talked about in Star Wars. It is a belief in the Taoist “yin and yang,” which claims our universe is balanced between good and evil. The yin-and-yang symbol is a circle with a line inside that curves like the stitching on a baseball. The two areas are colored light and dark, and the entire symbol is a Taoist philosophical representation of the universe’s supposed opposing forces. Taking this Taoist idea back to the mindset presented in the Star Wars films, the movies portray what seems to be opposing dark and light sides of the “Force,” but Taoism and the Star Wars films really teach that the opposite
forces are interconnected and interdependent on each other, actually combining to keep the universe in balance by canceling each other out. That is the false Taoist message that has its followers believe the black (dark, or evil) side of the yin-and-yang symbol can’t exist without white (light, or good), like cold not being able to exist without heat. Chinese culture has taken this belief so far that this yin-and-yang concept is foundational to many branches of classical Chinese science and medicine. And again, many forms Chinese exercises (like tai-chi martial arts) present this idea of needing to equalize the flow of the universe. But the yin-and-yang principle of Taoism is directly contradictory to biblical Christianity,
where God is good and has existed without evil—good can
exist without evil—while evil must have a comparison to good
so that there is a way to demonstrate that it is evil.