THEOLOGY IN WARHAMMER 40K
This will be the first post in what may be a long running series on Warhammer 40k. I first encountered the famous tabletop RPG from another table top RPG named Rifts earth created by Palladium games. People’s comments on Rifts was that it looked like Warhammer, just in a different setting with different names, and it turns out they were right, but I still loved Rifts earth, because it had a system where nearly every I character I loved could be integrated there, I could be a Jedi if I wanted. Ofcourse I don’t play tabletop RPGs, because there isn’t a market for it here (Nigeria), nowhere to buy and no money to buy it, but I could still fantasize, and as a teenager discovering so many fictional universes, that was awesome.
I hit a dead end in Rifts, lack of access to books and University will make you question your priorities. But in my spare time, I finally gave in to my curiousity and decided to check Warhammer out. I have to give a shout out to the YouTube channel 40K Theories for giving me a very captivating introduction, I was hooked. It was about the time I was fully deep in my theology craze, when I started reading people like Peter Leithart and James Jordan. They had piqued my interest in sacramental theology, Biblical symbols and typology, church history and hierarchy, and a variety of other subjects. Then here comes Warhammer with its super religious world, a world of scifi where religion is such a societal driving force, even rifts didn’t get this far in creating a religious world. It was meant as a sort of critique of organized religion, but to me it was a gold mine of religious symbols and allegory. A human King declared a supreme god, a priestly hierarchy, temples and temple space ships, holy swords, demons and knights, all in a scifi setting, it was a dream come true. This is what I want to explore in this series. It may even become a separate category of posts on this blog. I have so much to pour out, and as I learn more about this strange universe, the crazier the parallels between it and the real world spiritual life we Christians are called to live.