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Originally Posted by Jester

Whether the avowedly fictional cosmology of a sci-fi wargame can constitute an act of blasphemy in this case is not a question I can answer off the top of my head. I can however state that this particular Catholic lad always found the religious aspects of 40K deeply resonant.

I didn't mean to completely bash it If it helps, I am Catholic as well. I think the issue is that the fictional lore does indeed come across as incompatible with the world as described by the Catholic understanding. Even if we grant for the sake of argument that the emperor was Christ, we have deep philosophical problems. God in the Catholic sense is the being that creates and sustains the existence of creation itself. But the emperor pales in that comparison. The emperor is more similar to how people refer to Godzilla as "God". YET, in the 40K universe, he is worshiped and treated as if he were the actual God.

This is why I personally root for Eldar in the 40K. The following exchange between Taldeer and Thule during the Dark Crusade won me over completely haha:-

Captain Thule(Upon losing the relic): Alien witch! You despoil our chapel with your presence.
Farseer Taldeer: Your Emperor is an illusion, human. I cannot blaspheme against something that isn’t divine.
Captain Thule: You dare…!
Farseer Taldeer: Unless, of course, you pray to something else altogether from this ruined temple.