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Which is the most morally correct Inquisitor?
A bit of an odd/dumb thought experiment. Let us presuppose the following. You are in the 40k universe, and through the vagaries of fate have become a member of the Holy Ordos of His Majesty's Imperial Inquisition. You have the rosette, and with that rosette comes the authority to order the death of an entire world, and to consign a billion souls to oblivion. For the purposes of our thought experiment you are a true believer in the Imperium. It is the best, last hope for mankind and your job, your only job, is to push back the dying of the light by a decade, a year, a week, even just a day. To hold the line against the witch, the heretic, and the alien.
But which one is the most morally consistent with your internal value system as a man or woman who wholeheartedly supports the Imperium? The Ordo Xenos, Malleus, or Hereticus? Yes I'm aware that there are innumerable minor ordos, but work with me here and don't say "actually it's the Ordo Cronos." Does pursuit of the witch, the heretic, or the alien provide the greatest opportunity for pushing back the decay that besets the Imperium? There are of course excellent arguments for any of the options. The Alien is the most obvious threat. Unsubtle, overpowering, and always nibbling at the edges of Imperial space. The Tyranid breed xenos is an existential threat, and left unchecked it will consume the galaxy. But there are also countless other xenos threats, ranging from the major (Orks), to the relatively minor (Hrud). On the other hand, the heretic gnaws away at the fabric of the Imperium. Left unchecked they will fester and explode into rebellion, resulting in the deaths of millions or billions, and the diversion of hard-pressed Imperial resources away from the borders of Imperial space. On the third hand (insert genestealer joke here), the witch is the hardest to find and fight, while potentially representing the worst possible outcome. Too many witches go unchecked, and you risk letting a warp storm open in Imperial space, dragging countless human souls into literal hell where they will be murder/rape/tortured for eternity. Better to be eaten by Tyranids than dragged into the warp no?
I deliberately put this in the fun thread because I don't have a great answer, mostly because I can see the valid arguments for any of the above. Also because it's a silly thought experiment. But I'm curious as to what those mottizens who are familiar with the 40k universe think. Or if you're not familiar with the 40k universe, if anything jumps out as you as an obvious answer.
Not versed in the lore enough, but Warhammer 40k ambient music comes up in my feed a lot and I love it. Some of it sounds more spiritual than common church music today, at least to me.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MY2eOrxYxiI
The comments are usually filled with pseudo-Christian maxims, too. That’s part of the lore I assume. But I read the comments and I think about how they’re all just one or two quick modifications away from medieval or antique Christianity.
That last one is a person having a genuine religious experience. He is experiencing the sublime from a Warhammer 40k ambient music video on YouTube that may have been made by a 16 year old, and several thousand people find his experience agreeable. I watch this and I think: why don’t these guys just do religion? It would be better if they were engaging in living religion even as a larp than wasting these efforts on an expensive consumerist activity that doesn’t promote as much cooperation and social trust and connections etc. Your music and your art are already better than what is made in the churches today, by a lot, frankly. You can depict Jesus as blond and in armor, this isn’t that weird, He’s depicted as a Roman Emperor in a mosaic from Ravenna from antiquity and the Goths depicted Him as blond. Just direct your larp toward Christendom and see what fruit it brings. You’re watching a video of Sanguinus who google tells me is some blood angel, fine, you can find medieval hymns that mention the Sanguinisque Pretiosi of Christ and it kind of sounds like this, and some early Christians saw Jesus as an Angel.
I’m very pro-larp. If the guys doing Warhammer 40k just larped as Christians with some Christianized 40k lore aesthetics, it would be so socially fruitful, and I guess the only downside is that some assholes will constantly criticize them for not doing Christianity “authentically”, by which they mean performing it in such a fucking unaesthetic and tedious and boring way that no one shows up anymore except grandma and half the priests are gay. But whatever, the results would be better than playing Warhammer 40k, especially if you do full immersion baptisms.
There’s a comment from four years ago where someone simply posted an actual saying of Jesus, and it just fits in with all the rest:
And I kind of feel like this guy who replied last year:
Except I’d add: retain the larp, keep the larp, expand the larp. Believe whatever dogma you want which is conducive to prosocial conduct in the world. Who cares?
We have 40K-inspired Christianity at home.
Yeah I know this one, I like it a lot.
Yeah that’s pretty metal. “Get every twelve year old boy interested in your cathedral in one easy step”.
Still, I think the theology and the liturgy is not optimal for “engagement”.
Unfortunately I suspect most twelve year old boys by that age are already inoculated against any related topic by endless schoolmarm-led political weekly lectures about le glorious grandfather victories.
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