I know the aesthetics of Warhammer 40K are popular here, but isn't its story implicitly anti-Christian? My remembering of the Imperial story is that the Emperor, the guy who actually founded the Imperium, was a mortal man who nevertheless was a very good m

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Christanon 04/02/18 (Mon) 08:35:04 b0d1db No.628498

I know the aesthetics of Warhammer 40K are popular here, but isn't its story implicitly anti-Christian? My remembering of the Imperial story is that the Emperor, the guy who actually founded the Imperium, was a mortal man who nevertheless was a very good man and a charismatic leader. He explicitly told humanity not to worship him, but after he goes into an eternal coma after his fight with Horus, humanity decides to set up a religion in his name anyway, with this religion being a sort of weird parody of medieval Catholicism. It reminds me of the meme that Jesus never claimed to be divine but was merely a great wise man, with Christianity being a distortion of Jesus' original teachings.

Christanon 04/02/18 (Mon) 08:56:06 b6110f No.628501

>>628498

>I know the aesthetics of Warhammer 40K are popular here, but isn't its story implicitly anti-Christian?

Not really. Its actually mocking atheists, if you look at it carefully.

>My remembering of the Imperial story is that the Emperor, the guy who actually founded the Imperium, was a mortal man

wrong

>who nevertheless was a very good man

wrong

>He explicitly told humanity not to worship him, but after he goes into an eternal coma after his fight with Horus, humanity decides to set up a religion in his name anyway

wrong, before he fell into coma, he decided to agree to be worshiped (foretold in last church novel with conversation with a last Christian priest) as it was only way to save mankind from chaos corruption and his retarded state atheism was turned out to be pointless, as chaos fed on emotions. This is literally the only setting I know by far where religious fanaticism is JUSTIFIED by the setting. The only reason why Imperium sucks is because of cretins at AdMech and their policy regarding technological advancements.

>with this religion being a sort of weird parody of medieval Catholicism.

Aquila, State-Church relations atleast and focusing on the Empire and Emperor are more Orthodox. And Gothic architecture is great, can you blame them?

>It reminds me of the meme that Jesus never claimed to be divine but was merely a great wise man, with Christianity being a distortion of Jesus' original teachings.

Not really, especially since emps isnt "just a man" to begin with. Entire reason why he tried to eradicate religions is to stop chaos.

Christanon 04/02/18 (Mon) 09:11:00 688f06 No.628502

>>628498

is it latria or hyperdulia? :^)

Christanon 04/02/18 (Mon) 09:34:18 7ecd8a No.628505

>>628498

>isn't its story implicitly anti-Christian?

Let's see…

>A group of devout warriors are in an all encompassing war with the forces of chaos who are literal fucking demons who corrupt everything.

Seems pretty christian to me.

Christanon 04/02/18 (Mon) 10:12:34 221648 No.628511

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>>628498

Christanon 04/02/18 (Mon) 10:19:23 86d120 No.628515

>>628498

It’s similar to Far Cry 5. Atheist propaganda that backfires.

Christanon 04/02/18 (Mon) 10:51:35 1526a7 No.628526

it's more popular on /pol/

the Emperor of Mankind went on a crusade to destroy every religion. he was not fond of superstition/faith as it fueled demonic-warp entities.

The Emperor was a transcendent being, much above all of humanity. Immortal, powerful and intelligent. During the thousands of years that he has lived, and thanks to his psychic nature, he has learned a lot about the secret workings of the universe and he saw that all the gods, spirits and demons were actually real warp entities. Now, some of these entities were actually benevolent, or at least not-threatening to the humanity but due to the existence of the Three Gods of Chaos there also were thousands of malevolent entities hell-bent on destroying everything. The Emperor must have learned at some point, that these beings were fuelled by faith, worship and sacrifice. In lore, there are some suggestions (though never actually clear) that he might have been one or more figures from currently existing big religions, the only one we know him to be for a fact, is saint George.

When the Emperor revealed himself and started creating the Imperium of Man he prohibited religion not just to stop giving energy to the beings of the warp, but also he saw that as a waste of human time and potential. After all, why spent your time on meaningless devotions when you can work for the good of the entire human race.

Christanon 04/02/18 (Mon) 10:54:01 3f7849 No.628529

>>628526

> After all, why spent your time on meaningless devotions when you can work for the good of the entire human race.

He changed ideas at the last moment, after seeing atheistic society powered up Chaos even more

Christanon 04/02/18 (Mon) 11:14:19 7cd8a4 No.628536

>>628501

Interesting. Definitely a lot less fedora than I’d thought.