I think I vaguely knew that Christopher Lee was in a metal band, but I have not heard his stuff. It sounds nuts.
About the recruitment, it is so complicated. You're right about kids being raised with religion, but the Jedi aren't just a religion. They're a profession, a whole closed society of unpaid space cops and diplomats. Their parents aren't just signing them up for baptism or Hebrew school, they're signing them up for a lifetime of dangerous, unpaid service to the state. And of course the state encourages them to do so. Force sensitive are a valuable strategic resource and, as long as the Jedi are nominally under the control of the Senate, it makes complete sense that the state wants as many Jedi as it can get.
Re: Recruiting
About the recruitment, it is so complicated. You're right about kids being raised with religion, but the Jedi aren't just a religion. They're a profession, a whole closed society of unpaid space cops and diplomats. Their parents aren't just signing them up for baptism or Hebrew school, they're signing them up for a lifetime of dangerous, unpaid service to the state. And of course the state encourages them to do so. Force sensitive are a valuable strategic resource and, as long as the Jedi are nominally under the control of the Senate, it makes complete sense that the state wants as many Jedi as it can get.