this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
87 points (100.0% liked)
chat
8637 readers
298 users here now
Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.
As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.
Thank you and happy chatting!
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Someone recently told me that the giant battle monks of 40k are enlightened atheists who believe in the god emperor as a nietzchean ubermensch and are trying to reform the imperium, and I think right at that point I realised that not even the writers understand the setting.
No that's true, during the Great Crusade the Emperor was an epic Reddit atheist in an attempt to deprive the Chaos gods of believers and the Astartes still don't consider him a god even though he objectively and measurably is after ten thousand years of being sustained by worship and human sacrifice
Consistency is not something the Imperium is good at
Some are some aren't. Black Templars for instance think the emperor is a god, but that's really backwards justification for why there's a subfaction that can be painted as crusaders.
The whole "reform the imperium" thing is definitely not something most believe in, it's basically the project of a single genetically-engineered superhuman who woke up after a ten thousand year nap and said "what the fuck is going on". Conveniently he's in charge of one of the largest groups of space marines but they didn't care until he woke up, and even now that he has a lot are just going "dude what the fuck are you talking about, we're being eaten by bugs, I don't care that the date is wrong due to a schism in the bureaucracy five thousand years ago".
To be clear Rowboat Girlyman's reaction to being revived after thousands of years in suspended animation and looking at what the Imperium had become was like "what the fuck guys why am I still alive the state of things is fucking horrible and a betrayal of everything I thought I was fighting for you should have let me just die"