So Tiber Septim basically.

And this is often why some protestants call the catholics polytheists as they have not cast off the relics of paganism yet. As the bible absolutely must be taken literally except for the part where Jesus says that this wine is his blood and this bread is his body. That's metaphorical.

Why did prehistoric people keep their stones in jars? I guess they didn’t have electricity to make rock tumblers but surely they could harness flowing river water to construct tumblers and make the rocks presentable enough they didn’t need be hidden away in jars.

Probably because the folk religion predates the clerics as it was just there rather than spreading in from the middle east.

The Romans worked in a similar way. The senate proclaim dead emperors to godhood even though they really didn't want to do that because the emperors were usually anti-senate or the senate had even killed the emperors or Caesar in some cases.

Additionally in practice beatification in Catholicism is just an approval process where they determine that people the masses are venerating were indeed saints, so it really is just more of a case of the Church pretending like it is in control more than anything.

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Well at least they aren't destroying major cities by letting them flood. I'll take that trade.

Ahh, but what of the practices of the Space Jews?

Show me the gold, I wanna know where the gold at

> Why not destroy Mannimarco?

That'd be the part where they don't have practically any agency anymore. They gave themselves up for Nirn, and Mannimarco is a product of Nirn. One who took advantage of a moment of divine weakness, no less. A lot of things go out the window when time itself is bound and broken, and now Akatosh is bound to protect Mannimarco as he is.

"We have all the power to rip your still-beating heart out of your chest but somehow not to crush it," against, "Holy shit, I'm literally tied up by the bones of the world right now and consequently being smacked around by focused semi-divine energy so hard that I've forgotten which direction is forward or how many timelines there are, let me gather myself. Hey, wait, who's this guy? I made him permanent? Shit, sorry Arkay."

>It's also possible that they did kill Lorkhan and he only "lives" in the Nordic pantheon.

Not really? The Bretonic and Cyrodilic faiths both view him as an active force. The Reachfolk believe Lorkh comes among them in times of great need. And even the Khajiit, who clearly see what they believe to be the corpse of Lorkhaj hanging in the sky, also believe he was cursed to walk Nirni after having his heart ripped out.

>There's also Lunar Lorkhan.

There is, and there's also the Dark Moon and worship of the moons in multiple cultures as independent, also-dead gods. And the fact that Fal Droon, the author of The Lunar Lorkhan, is also author of a book which tries to explain away Dragon Breaks as bad timekeeping and calendar mixups. Which... just going to point to Mannimarco again here.

>There's also this:[...]

I'd argue that creating pocket realms isn't the same as a realm being a divine plane. Specifically the use of 'clever magic' to create it calls that into question - it wasn't always there, a part of Shor, it's something Shor specifically made. Shalidor created a pocket realm with his clever magic, that's not a high bar. Seems on point that the god of mortals would build a consolation prize for those who struggle valiantly as he wants but fall short regardless. Every spirit can't be the next godhead, after all.

Sovngarde also isn't located on Shor, even if you believe the Lunar Lorkhan that Masser and Secunda would have been Shor/Lorkhan. You can still go to Masser and Secunda, the Khajiit conduct religious rites on Masser and Reman II personally oversaw the landing on Secunda. Sovngarde can't be Shor's plane unless we assume divine planes pass into Aetherius on their deaths, or that his clever magic completely changed how his divine plane worked and unbound it from Oblivion where the rest of the divine planes and his own body still lay.

>It's heavily hinted that the gods are shaped by whatever religion views them.

Well yeah. Kind of goes hand-in-hand with the OP and what I was saying about mortals being weak with incredible potential - enough to empower or change gods by sheer belief, to become gods or even greater by the same.

That's interesting, I'd sure hate to be the ones that have to sort through all the shit us current day humans will leave behind us.

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Does that number include the ones we imported?

So they did stop trying, got it.

Whatever assface!

Well you won't see that again..

The Vietnamese people you saw running Chinese restaurants are probably Hoa (Chinese Vietnamese). They’re ethnic Chinese who immigrated to Vietnam or lived there for several generations before being expelled by the Viet Cong.

I worked in multiple stores across multiple years - they don't just lean Christian. The stores, the owners, and most management are deeply religious in my experience. I was pressured to go to Dave Ramsey classes, go to church, pray at every meeting, etc.

Not saying it is an evil place, most of the people I worked with were the kind to practice what they preach and aren't hateful people. But don't fool yourself into thinking the individual restaurants aren't as religious as the brand as a whole.

Hot Cross Buns

In 2017 they changed it to.."Well, we tried."

For sure. Leo's character actually says "Forty Thieves" when following her and describing what she was doing.

Kinda like the concept of Mantling in the Elder Scrolls universe.

Sounds about as convincing as the carpenter who could make moonshine becoming the son of god

Don't wanna burst your bubble but neil has 0 idea what he's talking about when it comes to the arabic golden age. Which always astounds me. He knows he doesn't have enough data to speak on the subject, but he goes ahead and does it. That's clearly lying no? Someone should give him a nobel prize.

Also here if you're interested. Im no big fan of this guy but at least he does a decent job refuting the BS of NDT https://youtu.be/nfRnYNig9jU

It was changed to “Make it Here” in 2017

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