I am not defending any of this fuckwits, but I don't know that it's much different than any organized religion. All of them are stories that get retold over and over until people accept them on faith. I can envision a world where our stories (movies, books) where history is lost of their creation, become facts. "Of course there was Jedi, we've just forgotten…"

Now, they're all fuckwits, but it's not outside the realm of thought.

(BRB, gonna go start a sci-fi story.)