Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-28917471-20150106181946/@comment-25177957-20150106202945

Well the Emperor was far from an "idiot", but one of the mistakes that lead to the Horus Heresy was the Emperor's rejection of being worshipped as a divine figure and rejecting all religion in the Imperium. This lead the Word Bearers Primarch Lorgar to the Chaos Gods and him and his comrades worked to turn the other Primarchs such as Horus to the Chaos Gods using devious plots such as the Kinebrach Anathame which poisoned Horus and forced him to be "healed" by Chaos cultists on Davin and turned to Chaos while he was there. The Emperor himself did not directly make this mistake, but he should have instead sought to replace faith in Chaos with faith in him, rather than no faith, which leaves a vacuum for Chaos to fill.

I think that, during these discussions, alot of people are not paying attention to the lore, and what actually happened, was the Emperor a blatant idiot? Defenantly not. But the Emperor made plenty of avoidable mistakes, and should have seen the consequences coming.