Retards: 40k promotes atheism! Meanwhile 40k:

Hey, it’s not like the ruler of humanity is literally called the God-Emperor.

erm akshually chud we call him the science-emperor of humanity okaaaay

If anything, Warhammer shows how atheism ignores basic reality. Look at the failure and outcome of the imperial truth.

Pretending I'm an Astartes fighting for Christ and saying stuff like "Ave Christus Imperator" has done wonders for my religious life tbh

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WH40K bringing back crusaders:

Oh! I made a meme about this once... [sounds of rummaging] aha! Here we are:

I mean, it's not like WH40K has literal gods or anything.

imagine needing your favorite plastic army toy to agree with your shitty echo chamber politics before you can feel allowed to enjoy it. not that you actually enjoy it, you just use it as an excuse to infest other spaces with politics

i didn't read that shitty leftoid meme the first time i saw it and i'm not reading it now. cope harder plz

really? calling me gay- what are you twelve? christ the right really cant meme can it

pipe down gayboy

hoohhh so edgy, i'm totally crying i swear.

On brand

"That which was will be. That which dieth will live. That which falleth will rise up. This, I say to you, is the nature of things, if you but once believe." - Saint Sabbat, Epistles Sabbat Martyr, Chapter 2.

think the point of all that is he's there unable to scream "THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO, THIS IS EXACTLY THE WRONG THING".

except religious belief is the only thing keeping the emperor strong enough to hold back the chaos gods so unironically religion is keeping the species from being destroyed.

as scattered as his mind and soul are, it's much more likely the sisters, mostly, have created a latent chaos god in his image. if this leads to his resurrection or to an entirely new being, remains to be seen. and intentionally or not, they are also fueling all the chaos gods.

it's stated he hears uncountable trillions of people praying to him, it is not just sisters. his mental state has deteriorated to the point where he is less human and more god-like due to 10k years of pain and struggle. Whether that was his goal or not is now irrelevant.

i said mostly, as it's their view of him that seems to have shaped the warp entity, as well as the saints. as for him holding back chaos.... that's been going badly since the heresy it seems. does beg the question why the hell aren't chaos more concerned with the nids...

The nids have the shadow in the warp which interferes with psykers and such.

which is why you'd think they'd be concerned. no humans = no prayers, no desires, no acts they can feed on, and the snuffing aspect of the shadow would burn them back to the warp and out of realspace.

Roughly 80% of Astartes and 100% of Custodes don’t believe Big E is God (or even a god). The Ultramarines definitely aren't among those who do. Are you seriously missing the irony here?

it is ironic that the emperor thought atheism, that he knew was a lie, would protect humanity but would actually end up causing the Heresy, yes. It's then only fitting that religious belief in the emperor as a deity is what has sustained him for 10,000 years so that he can continue holding back chaos, yes.

If they stop to feed Big E with 1K psykers a day he will die, to matter how many billions believe in him. Yes or not?

idk why don't you tell me

40k Is Christian story.

???

You have never read The Last Church in your whole life

who are the primary antagonists of the 40k universe?

Bro literally falling for Lorgar's treachery as a reader lmao

let's not forgot the based priest that stood up to the emperor a long time ago, Uriah Olathaire. They can't handle the Christianity of 40K because they are Slaanesh worshippers in disguise.

I thought the books at least depicted a healthy Christian perspective of faith in the first few?

>Most space ships are floating cathedrals >Blessings are real and have a tangible effect on the world >A literal saint who looks like an angel saves entire wars from disaster >Constant rituals and prayers before and after everything "This is about atheism!"

@LordGeneral40k 40K imperium is a techno-feudal theocracy… every race has a god and it’s basically a rule of the universe isn’t it

Honestly the whole "Big E is a Reddit atheist" thing is kinda retarded. Like "oh no guys please don't worship the 20ft tall man with golden armour, firy sword, literal halo of psychic energy and can crush people with a mere thought" Oh and one of his sons looks like this 😑:

Some people need to read The Last Church, and some need to read the Siege of Terra series / follow the Euphrati Keeler plot line. The fun nuance of the lore is ruined by meta political fights.

That video goes hard every time I see it.

40k shows how removing faith and outlawing it has drastic and very dire consequences. Instead of trying to channel it in a positive direction. Also, it shows that there is no stronger feeling or action than faith. Never met a smart Atheist. Intelligent, yes. Smart? no.

40K critiques organized religion at scale, and it also points out many positive things that faith can accomplish. It’s not cut and dry either way, it’s by design - the only thing as everpresent as the grimdark are questions of morality, truth, purpose, right, and wrong. Anybody claiming some objective meaning is trying to politicize the hobby - it’s structured to have a multiplicity of interpretations, from more heady philosophical interpretations down to in-universe inconsistencies about what actually happened.

Humans have the God Emperor The Elf’s have their Gods The Ork’s have their Gods The Tau have their own thanks to their human populations warp presence Chaos has their Gods. Im pretty sure only the dwarfs have no gods but I’m not familiar with their lore

i mean.. Technically.. When you consider how the things are or rather used to be lore wise... The Emperor was strongly against Religion. Because faith is a very dangerous wepon that can be used against the people. Especialy because of the warp.

The Imperial Truth was Reddit Atheism

if the tourists read or watched anything about 40k , they would know that the emperor didn't fear religion or think it was stupid , he wanted to be rid of it so that and chaos couldn't use it to corrupt the masses of humanity.

In many ways it does. An easy example is in the imperiums lack of innovation because of its religious doctrines

why does it have those doctrines in place?

Because th- 🤨 Because they became religious zealots that’s the whole point man

I'm not even sure GW intended to achieve the level of depth that it has an Emperor of man enforcing atheism despite knowing gods exist, gods which represent the corrupting excesses of human desire, which he ultimately can only stand against by becoming of god himself