I do wonder if his decision to cut those scenes and then not edit them into the movie for the DVD was merely a marketing plan so that he could sell his "revised special edition DVD" of ROTS sometime in the future, as Rick McCallum called it.
Anything those people do at LFL is suspect.......they constantly find ways to make themselves look like greedy, money-loving bloodsuckers.
If you doubt me....go to the video store and see the latest "release" of the OT.
Lucas was aiming for a Virgin Birth scenario, what with Anakin having no father and being the Chosen One (i.e. "annointed one," literally "Messiah" or "Christ"). An Immaculate Conception makes no sense, because there is no JudeoChristian God (that we know of) in the Star Wars universe, and there is no reason to believe that Star Wars humans are descended from Adam, one of that God's creatures. Even if the idea of an immaculate conception did exist in the Star Wars universe, in a more general sense, Anakin's conception certainly wasn't without some original sin -- he was created by Sith magic, which is about as sinful as you can get. So while the Immaculate Conception theory had some small hope of life before 2005, RotS blew it out of the water. The idea should be discarded like the nonsensical speculation it was.
I never looked at it that way....the JudeoChristian thing and how it doesn't really work in the SW universe. But you are right about ROTS blowing it out of the water. I never liked the whole "immaculate conception" idea from TPM anyway. Thought it was incredibly hokey.
On another note.....I've heard that whole JudeoChristian Messiah stuff attached to the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve. That always rubbed my the wrong way too. Superman being portrayed as some sort of messiah is kinda silly. I think the whole messiah, savior thing is silly. Like one being can save all of us from evil or whatever......rolls eyes.