Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130318203252/@comment-6134883-20130403183155

We're getting so deep I'm going to need to put on my boots! ;-)

We have in the Chaos incursion aboard Horus' flagship in 'False Gods' clear proof that reason and science ALONE is not enough to master Chaos. Faith in the Emperor was. Emps gets full marks for not wanting to set himself up as a false god - this is indeed greatly to his credit and good evidedence that his intentions were always of the best - but we know what the road to Hell (or Warp?) is paved with. His failure to understand the basic psychological need for faith and provide an outlet for it was a fatal weakness. Setting himself up as the arbitrator of what Humanity should and should not believe, should and should not know, should and should not do was undoubtedly inspired by the highest motives but fatal because remarkable as he was he was still not omnipotent or omniscient. The Greeks had a word for this error 'Hubris'.