[Jester]

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Originally Posted by ddarko

I didn't mean to completely bash it If it helps, I am Catholic as well.

I would never have guessed.

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Originally Posted by ddarko

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.

I think that that's an issue present in most mainstream sci-fi and fantasy universes, though. Halo, Star Trek, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, etc, all would be due for similar criticism concerning their cosmology, by the same token.

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Originally Posted by ddarko

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.

To my understanding of the lore, there's a not-unreasonable basis to suppose that the Emperor is God as far as 40K is concerned. I mean, sure, the character was originally described as a gestalt of prehistoric human psykers welded together into a sort of "super-soul" for the purposes of defending mankind from Chaos, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside years ago. More recent texts have alluded to the Emperor's true nature as being so indescribably above and beyond everything else in the universe that neither the most advanced aliens nor all the forces of Chaos can in any way comprehend it.

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Originally Posted by ddarko

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.

To me, that just illustrates the extent to which the Eldar tend to be blinded by their own arrogance, and/or how silly the DoW games tend to be (I mean, Khornate sorcerors? Seriously?).