Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7232811-20130620224607/@comment-2253300-20140601190713

69.35.168.120 wrote:

And to the other, my main concern was presenting how things are on actuality as opposed to the real rules within the Imperium. The people are, on average, under nobles who don't care. There are certainly many better places, but even these can't stray from the religion even slightly. Think if every rule of the most strict Bible Beater was enforced throughout your region? It's not that they require many secular rules, the religious ones do enough. Actually regarding religious freedom the Imperium sort of sits in a place between freedom and slavery. It's true that the only religions that the Imperium tolerates are the Imperial Cult and the Cult of the Machine God. However just as the Imperium can not actively micromanage the lives of its citezens, the Ecclesiarchy can not effectively micromanage their fiath for precisely the same reasons. Those reasons being the unreliability, inefficiency and danger of communication and transportation on an interstellar scale. As a result there is actually a great amount of diversity within the Imperial Cult. There are a thousand different versions of the cult which are sanctioned and tolerated with wildly differing beliefs. It's true that each of these branches need to conform to a number of core principles in order to avoid being considered heresy, but there are only really a few tenets that the Ecclesiarchy universally enforces. This results in numberless interpretations of the worship of the Emperor.