Editing Imperial Cult (section)

==The Imperial Creed==
Though the substance of the Imperial [[Creed]] can vary from world to world as the Imperium is extremely vast, the Creed itself is deceptively simple. This makes life easier for missionaries who are attempting to bring new planets into the fold as the original superstitions of each planet might be fundamentally incompatible with a convoluted religion with too many doctrines.

Regardless of any other deviations in belief, the basic tenets are as follows:

# Worship the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] as the One-True-God, your Lord and Savior.
# [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|Humanity is perfect]] and are the dominant form of life in the galaxy, [[Chaos|everything]] [[Eldar|else]] [[Orks|needs]] [[Tyranids|to be crushed]] [[Tau|or subjugated.]]
# It is the duty of all Humans to obey members of the Imperial Government and their superiors.

So at its simplest, a world can believe whatever it likes, so long as the Emperor is God or at the very least the head God, so on some worlds he might be a god of [[Thunder Warriors|thunder]] and [[Psyker|lightning]], on others he might be the judge of the dead, on others he might just be an almighty paymaster, whilst on others he might be seen as a god of destruction who must be [[Death Cult Assassin|appeased with death]]... essentially each planet can have its own view of the Emperor. This makes the Imperial Cult an extremely tolerant religion when it comes to expressions of faith, which is ironically [[skub|at odds]] with most observers' opinions on what the Imperial Creed is actually about. In addition, the Imperium is so vast and its history so expansive that just about any belief can be matched with something that already exists within the Imperium. Protector god? Space Marines. God of plenty? Agricultural world. God of fire? Salamanders. God of frost? Some world close to its star. God of light? World with weak atmosphere where they live underground. God of machines? Adeptus Mechanicus. The big guy who the plebs think is a god? Adeptus Custodes. And so on. On top of that, the Imperial Cult is perfectly willing to spend centuries or even millennia very slowly shifting a new world’s beliefs to fit closely enough to be accepted.