Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-1657156-20130413051827/@comment-6134883-20130413164139

Conan???? Well they do say his powers unfolded gradually. He could have started out as a barbarian warrior, who is in fact a good bit smarter than he's given credit for.

I very much doubt that Empy was Moses or Jesus or Mohammed simply because all those faiths started among small, unimportant tribes or nations. Moses preached to a few thousand wandering Beduin. Jesus was one of a number of 'prophets' in 1st. c. Judea and long after his death Christianity was a subversive faith found among peasants and slaves. Mohammed belonged to a people who'd spent their entire history battling each other at the sandy end of nowhere.

Zoroastrianism on the other hand that was for a thousand years or more the religion of one of the mightiest Empires on Earth (the Persian/Sassanian) seems a real possibility especially given its dualistic nature Truth/Lie and non-deistic character. And I wouldn't be surprised if Empy weren't responsible for the Mithraic cult that spread through the Roman empire, especially the Legions. I wonder if one of the reasons he's so down on religion is that all his lost out to 'wild' faiths like Christianity and Islam.