Christian and Warhammer

glacius.cold DeleteThis @gmail.com wrote:
> I am a young christian not physically. I began playing the table top
> game warhammer 40k. I have started looking through the rulebooks and
> noticed that their are a lot of references to demons and such. I refuse
> to play an army that has demons or can use them. But is is wrong to
> play the game at all. I play the necrons but i am thinking about
> switching to Dark Eldar. But after reading through the dark eldar codex
> I see that references models called incubi and succubus which are sort
> of demons. I do not want a flame war just some opinions.
>
> Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated thanks.

Well, if daemon=bad, isn't the obvious answer a daemon hunters army?

Actually, I'm curious as to how far you'd take this. If I remember
Revelations correctly, Satan appears as a dragon somewhere in there.
Does that rule out Eldar, because they have Fire Dragons? What about
(if you were playing Warhammer) High Elves, with Dragon Princes and
even actual dragons (or would it have to have multiple heads to
count?). Before you answer, remember that High Elves are generally
considered about as close to 'good' as GW gets.

Mind you, we also have to eliminate as options:
Khorne (Wrath)
Slaanesh (Lust)
Nurgle (Sloth)
Tzeentch (Witchcraft)
The Imperium (Worshipping false gods - The Emperor & The Machine God)
Orks (False gods again - Gork & Mork)
Eldar (We already got them with Fire Dragons, throw on witchcraft as
well - warlocks)
Dark Eldar (Wychcraft - we've already established that you aren't too
picky about spelling)
Squats (I"m guessing you"re not too keen on ancestor worship)

There you go, twenty seconds thought and I've reduced your choices to
Tau, Nids & Necrons...
Necrons and Nids are artificial life forms, one created through
robotics and AI, the other through bio-engineering. Last I checked, the
average fundie considers both of these to be 'playing God' and
therefore evil, so they're both out.
Tau I really don't know much about (There is no 3rd Ed), so they seem
to be the only race I can't eliminate. Anyone want to do it for me?

My suggestions: Either accept that it"s just a game and get over it, or
go try historical wargaming instead. A crusader army would probably be
right up your alley.

ratimir <ratimir2 RemoveThis @yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Squats (I"m guessing you"re not too keen on ancestor worship)

Squats are the only good guys in W40K. Or at least the only not-so-evil
guys.

> Necrons and Nids are artificial life forms, one created through
> robotics and AI, the other through bio-engineering. Last I checked, the
> average fundie considers both of these to be 'playing God' and
> therefore evil, so they're both out.

Depends on who did the creating, ofcourse. Do we have any info on that?


mcv.
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