Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-112.207.225.41-20160709120906/@comment-27518460-20161212012007

Jesus was never known to be a "demi-god" of war, combat or aggressive action. To my knowledge, he only enacted violence in the market with the Pharisees around (my recollection is fuzzy). Jesus is better know for being a pacifist more than anything. When He was wandering in the desert for 40 days and tempted by Lucifer; Jesus denied the Fallen Archangel's advances with philosophy and passive religious fervor. God had the Archangels and Angels do all the fighting after Lucifer broke away from God and tried to gain Heaven by violent action. Christianity's New Testament is pretty much about mortal on mortal violence with beings of divine nature not being violently active, except for the Book of Revelations, where things really get exciting. God and Jesus delegate violence to the mortals.

Perhaps, the Emperor is a rendering of God turned "man of action" with the Horus Heresy being a Games Workshop version of the fight between Heaven and Hell with Lucifer being Horus.