Aha, I parsed the meanings.
I dunno. I'd find a concept like that interesting.
Hell, I'm a Warhammer 40,000 fan(boy). Anyone familiar with the lore will know what I'm saying ahead. Something I found interesting was how the God-Emperor of Mankind was himself an atheist. During his galaxy-wide war to unite all of humanity under his single banner, he abolished all religious practices, making it illegal to worship any gods, even the worship of Him. He espoused atheism, and brought all of humanity under a society that venerated and adored scientific progress and inquiry, learning, and understanding. He was an actually eternal individual, immortal, and was, in all meanings of the word, the God of mankind.
Eventually he was betrayed by his son, Horus, and in the battle between them, Horus was obliterated, and the God-Emperor severely wounded, and would only survive by being connected to a giant life support machine known as the Golden Throne. For the succeeding 10,000 years, he would remain in a half-life, half-death, and all of mankind continued onwards only by his half-existence providing the beacon of navigation that all ships used for their equivalent of FTL. In that time, he became venerated as a God, in the spiritual sense, thus leading to the Imperium that he had built becoming a highly religious culture, and interestingly, all of humanity only persevered by their faith in Him, as the galaxy mankind dwells in during that time slowly and steadily gets worse, and worse, and worse.
I found it an interesting metaphor for how even a society of atheism built by an atheist could, in the worst of circumstances, become a society of the most oppressively religious in the name of survival...though the question ever remains in WH40k; IS that faith truly necessary? Or has it weakened humanity, and steadily led more and more reliance upon their faith to ruin their resolve and individual strength?
So. Yeah. I guess I could get behind such a story.
I dunno. I'd find a concept like that interesting.
Hell, I'm a Warhammer 40,000 fan(boy). Anyone familiar with the lore will know what I'm saying ahead. Something I found interesting was how the God-Emperor of Mankind was himself an atheist. During his galaxy-wide war to unite all of humanity under his single banner, he abolished all religious practices, making it illegal to worship any gods, even the worship of Him. He espoused atheism, and brought all of humanity under a society that venerated and adored scientific progress and inquiry, learning, and understanding. He was an actually eternal individual, immortal, and was, in all meanings of the word, the God of mankind.
Eventually he was betrayed by his son, Horus, and in the battle between them, Horus was obliterated, and the God-Emperor severely wounded, and would only survive by being connected to a giant life support machine known as the Golden Throne. For the succeeding 10,000 years, he would remain in a half-life, half-death, and all of mankind continued onwards only by his half-existence providing the beacon of navigation that all ships used for their equivalent of FTL. In that time, he became venerated as a God, in the spiritual sense, thus leading to the Imperium that he had built becoming a highly religious culture, and interestingly, all of humanity only persevered by their faith in Him, as the galaxy mankind dwells in during that time slowly and steadily gets worse, and worse, and worse.
I found it an interesting metaphor for how even a society of atheism built by an atheist could, in the worst of circumstances, become a society of the most oppressively religious in the name of survival...though the question ever remains in WH40k; IS that faith truly necessary? Or has it weakened humanity, and steadily led more and more reliance upon their faith to ruin their resolve and individual strength?
So. Yeah. I guess I could get behind such a story.
