Editing Imperial Cult (section)

==History==
{{Topquote|Rejoice, for I bring you glorious news. God walks among us.|The first lines of the Lectitio Divinatus}}

It got its start from the '''Lectitio Divinatus''', a spess bible written by [[Lorgar]], [[Primarch]] of the [[Word Bearers]], on the worlds conquered by his Legion during the [[Great Crusade]] and further perpetuated by believers amongst the crusade fleets. The Emperor, an advocate of atheism, did not approve, and betrayed, attacked, and humiliated Lorgar for it, which pushed his son into the worship of [[Chaos]] instead, which in turn ended up setting the [[Horus Heresy]] into motion. Afterwards, the Imperium worshiped the atheist even more than ever before. [[Just as planned]].

After the Heresy, the Emperor was entombed in the Golden Throne and was not exactly in a condition to stop people from portraying him as a god, and it was soon discovered that [[humanity]] could be united by using this religion to control them far more effectively than the old [[Imperial Truth]] ever could. It's unclear if He ever approved of the whole mess, but strange 'miraculous' things keep happening all around the galaxy wherever acts of profound devotion are performed in his name ([[Living Saint]]s, for instance), and faith in the Emperor has been shown to be a powerful weapon against [[Daemon]]s. There is ''something'' to this whole worship thing after all...