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human
[40k] If Big E was around for millennia, why did he allow mankind to follow such meek spiritual figures as Jesus, Buddha, etc? Not to mention idiotic political leaders.
gpt
We don't actually know with certainty that he was around for that long, all we know for certain is that he ended the age of strife by unifying earth and pascifying Mars. There are theories however that he *was* all those people. Of note is that they existed sequentially in different(-ish) parts of the world. His disapproval of religion would be a result of seeing what men will do with the power of religion in the absence of his direct guidance.

There is another theory that he preferred to lead from the shadows, ancillary to power but never in direct control; an apostle but not Christ himself. This could explain why he s not mentioned at all, no stories of a magnificent psyker saving people during the age of strife or during the dark age of technology.

And of course it's possible he was a perpetual but didn't have his immense psychic powers until he made a deal with the chaos gods sometime before records begin. He would have been northing more than a man who could not die until he was able to access the knowledge discovered during man's zenith.