More tellingly, those who partake in religion will be unable to experience guilt from their own wrongdoings and learn from their own failings and mistakes, instead blaming "evil" circumstances and individuals. While Golden Scepter now knows there are benevolent deities who deserve to be worshiped, his core criticism of religion mainly revolves around how unquestioning religious belief hampers mortal potential by shifting responsibility of one's own actions onto someone else, making them unable to truly appreciate their own strengths, and enabling them to remain dependent on others for guidance.
Belief Makes You Stupid: Justified, though in this case, it's religious belief that makes people stupid. It is noted that Golden Scepter makes an exception in regards to Corona due to the android's heroic personality and having spent his entire existence as sapientkind's ally. On the other hand, individuals like Prince Steel Barricade are in favor of the existence of Synthetic Automatons, but in his case, Steel Barricade has decided to accept and trust the judgement of his brothers who were against it, and even presented evidence that supported their opinions in the Conference of Hoofington. in general, even before the rise of the Imperium of Ponykind. Their reasoning behind this is because throughout Known History and before it, Synthetic Automatons and similar beings have always turned against their creators no matter how many countermeasures have been deployed, and no matter what had been done to prevent it (including giving beings with Synthetic Intelligent beings respectful treatment and equal rights), with always the same reasoning behind their rebellions: "Organic sapientkind are a threat that must be controlled or exterminated." In one notable event, an extremely prosperous civilization fell because its own Synthetic Automatons rebelled and destroyed their creators, something that Golden Scepter personally witnessed and forever turned him against sapient A.I. such as Synthetic Automatons, with the large majority up to Emperor Golden Scepter himself being distrustful of such things. Ban on A.I.: Despite being a racially harmonious and technologically advanced empire with effective Magitek, it is against building machines that have sapient A.I. And that's before the century-spanning Fourth Age Time of Trials forces them to seriously militarize themselves further in order to face the conflicts and challenges of the era. It has divine/demi-divine supreme commanders, heavily armed and mechanized forces with advanced technology, supported by battle psykers, elite armies of super-soldiers and other things, all supported by an enormous imperial population and great economic/industrial capacity. Badass Army: While far more modest than the ( partly by necessity) hyper-militarized nightmare that is the Golden Imperium, it is still formidable by Fourth Age standards. 
However, it's suggested that details aren't as accurate as they seem, and the Exosus Crisis forces the Terrans to acknowledge that things aren't so black and white, especially after Prince Steel Barricade publicly reveals the various horrors the Solarians went through under Exosus' hoof. This stems from both Golden Scepter's PTSD regarding the infamous "Mare of Iron" Rebellion, as well as apocryphal records detailing similar events.
Therefore, any Synthetic Automaton found to be sapient is automatically shut down before it could become a threat. Many Terrans, up to the Royal Family itself, see Synthetic Automatons as a race of beings that, no matter how kindly they are treated, will always rebel against sapientkind and treat it as a threat to control or exterminate. Is a Crapshoot: The Terran Empire's stance on Synthetic Automatons. Instead, the Terran Empire is more similar to the Realm of Ultramar, a mini-empire within the Imperium of Mankind governed by Roboute Guilliman and the Ultramarines, which is widely cited by many to be closest to what the Emperor had envisioned for Mankind and the last surviving remnant of the Emperor's dream after the Horus Heresy.
Adaptational Heroism: Because Golden Scepter became truly benevolent by the time he decided to settle down, the Terran Empire lacks the grimdark elements that made the Imperium of Man such a Crapsack World, resulting in its mortal populace becoming much kinder, open-minded, and racially tolerant, in contrast to the xenophobic, superstitious, and murderously fanatical people of the Imperium of Man.
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