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Originally Posted by Jester

That's one of the classic ambiguities of the setting. According to 40K lore the Emperor literally is Jesus Christ, or rather Jesus is heavily implied if not stated outright to be one of the many personas adopted by the Emperor to shape the growth of mankind throughout history (another is Saint George, recalling the Emperor's defeat of the C'Tan known as the Void Dragon). Of course, the Emperor would then apparently try to quash religious worship all together at the beginning of the 30th millennium as some kind of attempt to starve Chaos, but even as pre-existing religions are being targeted, the Lectitio Divianatus, the unofficial and highly illegal cult of the Emperor as the one supreme and true God, is rapidly growing, with particularly devout individuals such as the former war-correspondent Euphrati Keeler displaying phenomenal, saintly powers of faith, including banishing demons, healing the afflicted and even stopping time altogether, suggesting that the Emperor is, in fact, some sort of supreme being within the 40K universe, which is reinforced by the fact that the forces of Chaos are scared shitless of whatever the Emperor actually is, and will only refer to him as "The Anathema" (which in contemporary terms means something irrevocably opposed and/or completely opposite to a given thing, group, person or point of view, and in archaic, biblical usage denotes something permanently and irrevocably devoted to God)

What you are saying is my point though. The lore in this manner comes across as blasphemous from a Catholic POV. That is why it feels weird......