Are the servitors christians
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No, and no. It was methodically and deliberately stomped out by the Emperor. There was one exception (one of the Emperor’s fellow perpetuals) but he’s dead too.
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does it exist in the setting? yes 40k takes place in the actual earth history
could there be Christians, hard to answer, im not too well versed in the pre empire dark/golden age timeframe but since 40k as a settings has many undefined things, it is theoreticly possible that worlds with human poplulations exist that don’t had contact with the empire and retained some forms of religion, however any person from the empire itself would not even be aware what chistianity is, so boils down to:
is the servitor from a recently untouched pre empire human world? or is he from within the empire
the first is extremely unlikely but theoretically possible.
the things he clings to are most likely from the imperial cult, a religion that took over after the emperor could no longer intervene. (and has a lot of inspiration of Catholicism)
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Thanks guys
Well according to the lore, Christ returned some time around m24 though few records exist from that time. It seems the true believers were raptured away causing widespread panic and everyone remaining became Muslims which is why Islam can be found everywhere in the current era of the lore.
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That’s a rather curious question. In the case of the very rare servitor with sufficient awareness to express religious faith, I would expect that it would most likely worship the God-Emperor/Omnissiah.
As for whether Christianity exists or did exist in the WH40K universe, the Horus Heresy novels feature several characters who adhere to the “Catheric” faith, which seems to be a future form of Roman Catholicism, and it’s strongly implied if not outright stated that Jesus was one of the identities adopted by the Emperor in the course of guiding the development of Mankind over the eons. As others have said, you could potentially have a servitor from a pre-Imperium colony lost to Terra during the Long Night, but all extant human religions seem to have gone extinct within the Imperium. In part, this was the result of the Emperor imposing the ironically-named “Imperial Truth”: a blanket ban on religious practice that ostensibly denied the existence of gods (and the Emperor’s own divinity) in the name of logic and reason but was actually a secret (and ultimately self-defeating) attempt to starve Chaos by eradicating worship in general.
In short, it was such an astonishingly ill-thought-out plan that I can only conclude that its ultimate failure was entirely deliberate and planned for, in order to help pave the way for the other part of the cause for the Imperium’s religious uniformity: the widespread daemonic manifestations that occurred during the Horus Heresy and the cause of their ultimate banishment. When the daemonic incursions began, one of the only effective means of defense against the encroaching Warp-spawn turned out to be members of the illegal “Lectitio Divinatus” sect, who asserted the divinity of the Emperor, and in so doing, proved capable of banishing even the powerful daemonic manifestations back to the Warp (one such example being Euphrati Keeler, the first Imperial Saint). Unsurprisingly, such shocking displays of the power of faith and the Emperor’s now-undeniable divinity proved influential, and the Lectitio Divinatus and its exponentially multiplying membership would go on to become the basis of the modern Imperial Cult and the Ecclesiarchy.
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this is super neat info. Thanks!
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To be honest, the Imperial Truth IS a truth, as the Warp Gods are not divine beings, they might be powerful, but are fully dependent on nourishment to keep their strength up or growing. The universe in the “current” state might give that stream of ambrosia freely for them to drink from, but the “gods” are far from being actual gods as the typical western culture would understand, they are not on the level the capital G god of Christianity would be if he existed in 40k.
The Emperor had a great plan, he just had a (recurring) problem with keeping his own ego in check, he quite probably believed he actually could keep enough pressure on his subjects to keep his adversaries weak enough to be manageable. He might wield or have wielded great power and knowledge, but he was, as by hiw own words, still human and fallible.
I guess he tried his best, hoped for the best and drew a tremendously bad hand, and did the only thing he could do from there: he kept trying to do his best to survive and maybe get back to a point where he gets another chance.
People often go for the “just as planned” meme to explain away failure, but I guess, grimdarkness is so powerful, even the Emp can’t stop drawing the shortest sticks time and time again.
So far as most people would be concerned, that’s really a mostly semantic difference in practical terms. The “Imperial Truth” (in a conscious act of falsehood) denied the existence of any kind of spiritual powers or entities, which created a crisis of faith amongst certain members of the Emperor’s legions, when they began encountering Warp entities at first hand, that ultimately snowballed into the Horus Heresy.
Not necessarily. It’s not like pre-Christian western gods were on that level either (Thor getting drunk and running around inside a giant’s glove, thinking himself lost in a cave, comes to mind).
Maybe, and maybe not. The problem is that we can either believe that the single most powerful entity in the entire WH40K universe is kind of an idiot (to the point of being unable to anticipate that his followers/creations would feel betrayed upon discovering that he had mislead them), or we can believe that all really is, as the Zealot Judge likes to say, “as the Beneficent Emperor Wills it.” 
In the time 40k takes place I imagine christianity is long forgotten
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No, there are only 2 religions in the imperium The Imperial Cult, and the Cult Mechanicus
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Watch “The Last Church” for more:
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Wait really? Curious to read more about this, didn’t know this was part of the lore
This, basically.
There’s some really kooky stuff if you go back far enough in the timeline. iirc there’s a bit somewhere about one of the Kennedys being a perpetual. I think some of it is residual lore from the super early Rogue Trader days where the setting wasn’t really figured out yet and they were just throwing out whatever weird and funny ideas they could come up with to see what sticks.
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It lives on as the Imperial creed. 
It was a strange time, when all Space Marine chapters had jetbikes, Marines and Guardsman shared the same helmet design, and characters like Inquisitor Obi-Wan Sherlock Clouseau roamed the Imperium.
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