The Last Church

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Why is The Last Church held with such high reverence within the 40k fandom?

What sets it apart so much from every other 40k story?

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Because it's so shit.

>The Last Church held with such high reverence within the 40k fandom
It is?
If so, maybe it's because it's the only HH novel set before/at the time of unification and opens a unique window into that period.

It's beloved so much because throughout the entire story not a single sword is swung or weapon fired save far a very brief flashback. It proved how great Warhammer can be without Bolter Porn and violence.

It's a very short story and the flashback is pretty central to it.
Also, did you forget that they blow up the church in the end with grenades?

For fans of the lore, it's because of it being the earliest set canon in the 40k universe. For everyone else, it starts religious debates.

Would the empire be better off the Emperor made Christianity the official religion??

The Emprah tried to get rid of religion in a misguided attempt at trying to starve out Chaos. Had he known it wouldn't work, maybe he would.

Do people actually hold the Last Church in high esteem? Thirty thousand years of record history and another ten thousand or so that the Emperor was wandering the Earth before that, and he's hung up on the eleventh century Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition? I can't stand it when a character opens their mouth and the author's biases fall out and when I read the Last Church, it was as if Graham McNeill had written himself as the Emperor.

Nah, I think Christianity was just another religion to be disregarded. The smartest thing to do would be to reluctantly accept the worship of him by the masses to divert the faith from the Chaos Gods.

Or, y'know, telling everyone about Chaos like the Interix did so people could recognize the subtle threats of corruption.