Editing Omnissiah (section)

==Worship of the machine==
To venerate the machine god is to worship your coffee grinder, your showers, your collection of electronic dildos, your own computer you use to access this website, etc. It all involves long, complicated, and frankly needless praying and rituals to activate anything. Even turning on a light, you have to make a prayer first, probably do something with sanctified oil, speak a prayer of thanks that the electricity decided to satisfy your request, and thank the Omnissiah for bringing it all together.

Science is now an arcane art which is treated with danger and care. Literally, technosorcery. A techpriest really is a priest, learning more about hymns than how to properly weld something together. Essentially, this is one of the most blatant cases of literal irony. Because of that and the desire to dunk every piece of technology in oil, the sacred knowledge they guard so jealously has, over time, degraded along with their skills and ability to comprehend common sense.

Speaking of hoarding secrets, they have a habit of keeping information for the sake of it and not sharing unless forced to. It is because they believe the Omnissiah only wishes his chosen to know his knowledge. [[Pretend|It is generosity like this that will save the human race from all the terrors that assault it.]]

The Adeptus Mechanicus has sixteen universal laws of the machine god, divided into eight mysteries and eight warnings as given below with helpful observations.

The Mysteries of the Cult Mechanicus: 
* Life is directed motion.
* The spirit is the spark of life. (Ah, very ''Transformers'' there.)
* Sentience is the ability to learn the value of knowledge. (Pity they don't take this lesson to heart...)
* Intellect is the understanding of knowledge.
* Sentience is the basest form of Intellect. (Does that apply to Orks too?)
* Understanding is the True Path to Comprehension.
* Comprehension is the key to all things.
* The Omnissiah knows all, comprehends all. (Unlike his servants.)

The Warnings of the Cult Mechanicus
* The alien mechanism is a perversion of the True Path (<s>Which doesn't stop them when they want a look at all those Tau and Necron goodies.</s> the "how" of those technologies is heretical, the science behind them is holy.)
* The soul is the conscience of sentience.
* A soul can be bestowed only by the Omnissiah.
* The Soulless sentience (i.e. AIs) is the enemy of all (But since machine-spirits and servitors are derived from a mixture of organic and technological components, they're given a pass.)
* The knowledge of the ancients stands beyond question. (This is true. Pity that knowledge is in the hands of idiots)
* The Machine Spirit guards the knowledge of the Ancients.
* Flesh is fallible, but ritual honors the Machine Spirit
* To break with ritual is to break with faith. (Which doesn't stop them doing so when they are being shot at by chaos freaks)