Delving seriously into pop paganism/WH40k paganism

[RecycledBenedict]

taking the Catholic-influenced imagery and jargon, along with the basics of how the Emperor is perceived and worshiped in-canon, and slamming that hard into a Religio-based praxis.

The pig Latin is terrible, it reminds me why I wouldn't go near that game, even if I had been a fan of tin soldiers, which I am not.

A question to consider is, where on the axis Cosmic Order -- Liberation this religion would fall. Kemeticism seem to be much about Cosmic Order. Human rites on Earth upholds Maat. Buddhism is very much about liberation from an existence of suffering, impermanence and clinging to illusory ego. Most religions fall somewhere in between. Mediterranean pagans seem to have fallen on different points of this axis, depending on profession and in which century they lived: Early Greeks and farmers falls closer to the Cosmic Order end of the axis, while late Greeks and philosophers falls closer to the Liberation end of the axis. Where does this pop cultural religion of yours fall?

[Darkhawk]

A question to consider is, where on the axis Cosmic Order -- Liberation this religion would fall. Kemeticism seem to be much about Cosmic Order. Human rites on Earth upholds Maat. Buddhism is very much about liberation from an existence of suffering, impermanence and clinging to illusory ego. Most religions fall somewhere in between. Mediterranean pagans seem to have fallen on different points of this axis, depending on profession and in which century they lived: Early Greeks and farmers falls closer to the Cosmic Order end of the axis, while late Greeks and philosophers falls closer to the Liberation end of the axis. Where does this pop cultural religion of yours fall?

 
... I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that these are opposing polarities, honestly.

[MadZealot]

My brother is the big WH40k fan in the house and owns a great deal of their novels, so I've begun reading the less... war-centered ones in hopes of gleaning some good bits of lore; in addition to online reading.

Dan Abnett. Eisenhorn.

[Castus]

Dan Abnett. Eisenhorn.

 
I've read one of the Eisenhorn books I think. He owns them all. I'll read them.

[RecycledBenedict]

... I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that these are opposing polarities, honestly.

Let me rephrase it: Is existence harmony or tragedy? As I wrote in my initial post on the subject, most religions fall in the middle between - or the stress on each exist in different parts of the same religion, which is often the case.

[Castus]

Some short - or not so short - daily devotion(s) characterize most religions.

Traditional Hindus prays sandhya vandanam, less traditional Hindus at least participate in an aarti, Roman Catholics have the Liturgy of the Hours or the Roman Breviary (though less popular among the laity), Anglican Christians have Book of Common Prayer, Japanese Buddhists recite the short puja according to temple-affiliation (danka), Moslem prays five times, Bahais have a prayer cycle with three prayers of different length, Jews prays three services from the Siddur, and Roman Reconstructionst Pagans venerate (at a minimum) Janus, the genii and Vesta.

How would a pop cultural cycle of daily prayers be organized?

 
I've begun tentatively putting together a Breviary and Liturgy of the Hours in the Catholic fashion, which can serve as a nice activity and maybe eventually as the basis for actually doing a WH40k Liturgy of the Hours. That would be distinct from shrine rites, which would be according mostly to the ritual structure common to the Religio, rather than anything Catholic.

As for recitation of names, I remember when it was in vogue in the pagan blogosphere to come up with lists of epithets for one's favoured deity. I could always do that, and then possibly integrate a rosary-type practice.

[RecycledBenedict]

I've begun tentatively putting together a Breviary and Liturgy of the Hours in the Catholic fashion, which can serve as a nice activity and maybe eventually as the basis for actually doing a WH40k Liturgy of the Hours. That would be distinct from shrine rites, which would be according mostly to the ritual structure common to the Religio, rather than anything Catholic.

As for recitation of names, I remember when it was in vogue in the pagan blogosphere to come up with lists of epithets for one's favoured deity. I could always do that, and then possibly integrate a rosary-type practice.

Pop culture paganism puzzles me in a way no other religion does, probably because it is so from-scratch, so to say. It sounds, however, like you are going to make it workable. It is a little bit strange for us outsiders, though I am familiar with Chaos Magic.

Are you going to include the Machine God too? Probably a good idea in our type of society?