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I genuinely thought about presenting the hypothesis that it's because most of those other cultures with wizard-priests represent non-europeans in some way who would therefore be seen as non-enlightened by the racist subconscious of the writers.
But the chaos guys are scandinavian coded, although that could come down to the weird thing where some English people are still mad about the vikings.
There's also Ulric, which has mage-priests. I think this is probably why the Empire has secular mages. Sigmar himself was a follower of Ulric and the Sigmarite religion still holds many of those beliefs.
The great heathen army is still seen badly in (southern) english cultural perception. The creation of England was due to warfare with danes and other viking settlers in the north.
English people when discussing ongoing colonialism: well that 'appened last chewsday, it's ancient history innit
English people when someone says a viking looks cool: THEY WERE VILE MONSTERS AND THEY SLAUGHTERED INNOCENT MONKS
I guess reason of the response the later part is more due to the events being mythos in the national geist of the British people and the first part is due to the fear of possibly needing to pay reparation and seeing themselves as guilty. In the west there is no mature view on "being in the wrong", it is not fostered there and is mostly used to justify any punishment done to the other.