>world where gods demonstrably exist and fuck with the affairs of mortals very overtly
>still have atheists

>>713860703 (OP)
That's how that works.

alright lady, gimme dem garters

>>713860703 (OP)
Pic not related?
That's a god hater, not a nonbeliever.

>>713860703 (OP)
Pic unrelated?

>>713860703 (OP)
ESL moment

>>713860703 (OP)
That’s clearly not an atheist, though? God haters aren’t atheists. You don’t hate Zeus just because you don’t believe in him.

She does believes gods exist, but they're lazy fucks who don't do anything. Fucking retard.

>world where god demonstrably exist and fucks with the affairs of mortals very overtly
>still am atheist
Sorry sweety

I swear I've seen this thread like 5 times now. Why don't you oblivion-ritualpost with about the minotaur like everybody else?

>>713860703 (OP)
Reed Richards entire character

>>713860703 (OP)
>hates the gods
>this means they don't exist
yeah exactly

>>713860703 (OP)
She says she hates them, not that they don't exist, retard.

>>713860703 (OP)
>live on a world that is demonstrably round
>believe earth is flat instead
it's not that wild op

>>713860980
>know a god
>all he does is drink beer, throw a hammer around and break your lab equipment

Why wouldn't you be a god-hater? All the daedric princes are dicks.

>>713861058
I tried digging a hole to china & found space instead, its flat.

>>713861162
Hircine is based as fuck though.

I was having this argument with my D&D group recently. I really don't give a fuck about or know anything about D&D's stock lore, so when I made my most recent character I put "none" for religion. They got all uppity, saying exactly what OP was saying. The gods meddle with the mortal plane on a regular basis, you HAVE to believe in them! Horseshit. There's a thousand different reasons why an individual might not believe in or follow any particular religion. Maybe he's been a hermit his entire life. Maybe she thinks they're not actually divine, but just extremely powerful. Maybe the religion they were following turned out to be bullshit, so they've rejected any other alternatives out there. You can keep making shit up, which is the entire point of the fucking game.

Of course, that's not what Else here feels. She doesn't think the gods aren't real, she just hates them. Two different things.

>>713861094
Not even that, Reeds entire character is being a science bases atheist, despite this retarded midwit dealing with paranormal and cosmic all the time and gave him his powers.

Dr Doom is much better

>>713862087
being scientific about magic, especially when you yourself do absolute bullshit like the nullifier through "science" is pretty fair though

Random confluence of celestial phenoma, interdimensional disasters.

>>713860790
>>713860856
Most self-proclaimed "atheists" hate god.

>>713860703 (OP)
She hates them, not doesn't believe in them, that's why she's a daedra worshipper that attacks you later as you progress in the main quest, she's a mythic dawn fag.

Also she's literally a daedra worshipper. The "gods" she hates are the aedra.

>>713865534
I don't hate God I just have memories of the past which is the future so i know time just repeats infinitely without change

>>713862087
magic is just science you don't understand yet

>>713865534
You might be right. A lot of atheists I've met have some strange cognitive dissonance where they seemingly switch back and forth from believing in God, to disbelieving in God, to hating God. It's a very strange and schizophrenic behaviour.

>>713865534
>>713867125
Are you guys being retarded on purpose or do you not understand that someone can hate a fictional character? You do it all the time with video games.

>>713865534
how can you hate something that doesn't exist? YA FUCKING DUMB CHRISTIAN
WHAT ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?

>>713860703 (OP)
??? where does she say she's an athiest? seems more like an antitheist to me. she isn't denying that they exist - she's declaring that she hates them. she's acknowledging their existence. maybe their interventions are why she hates them.

what a retarded thread
dude doesn't understand the difference between hating something and non believing in it.

atheism isn't about not believing in god because you cannot not believe in something which is the cause of all being

>>713867243
>4chan shitposter: the comedian

>>713860703 (OP)
The 9 Divines don't overtly fuck with mortal affairs. They are forced to be more subtle about things because they are too busy literally being physical reality.The Daedra on the other hand DO fuck with mortal affairs. They are typically not thought of as gods, especially in the Imperial pantheon context, though notably some cultures like pre and post Tribunal Dunmer worshipped Daedra as "gods".


Else God-Hater is a daedra worshipper, surprise surprise. She's a Mythic Dawn member who worships Mehrunes Dagon and she will reveal herself and attack after a certain point in the main story.

It's funny that you mention "gods demonstrably exist and fuck with the affairs of mortals very overtly" because they don't, and that fact is one of Else's stated reasons WHY she hates gods.

>"The gods don't do a damn thing. Do they even exist? How could anyone tell? Daedra Lords, sure. They exist. They do things. Bad things, mostly, but things you can see. The gods? They don't do a damn thing. So why do we build big chapels and sit around and mumble, and ask them to save us from this and that? It's stupid. And chapels and priests and folks groveling on their knees, they're stupid, too"

>>713860703 (OP)
What even constitutes a god?
Maybe I think that Akatosh exists, but I don't see him as a 'god' per se. Could any sort of extraplanar entity who convinces enough normals to worship them be a god? Would a mortal with sufficiently powerful magic (basically what the Tribunal, Dagoth Ur, Mannimarco, etc. were) be considered gods?

>>713861938
>Maybe she thinks they're not actually divine, but just extremely powerful.
Funny thing, this is kinda true in DND anyway. Many gods in DND actually started as mortals that gained divinity in some way. Divinity just seems to be a higher level of magic power.

>>713866917
>anon sucks so much cock he thinks he's trapped in a time loop

>>713867625
Tribunal and Dagoth Ur were both gods, but their godness was hijacked from Lorkhan's heart. So they're kind of like knock off gods ripping off the power of a dead god. Mannimarco could definitely have been said to have ascended to godhood, in fact his apotheosis split his being into a shitty mortal shell left behind on Nirn and the actual divine King of Worms that shines the shade of the revenant or necromancer's moon.

If you're looking for a mortal that became like the Aedra, look no further than Talos/Tiber Septim.

>>713860703 (OP)
I really hate the Indian hours on 4chan

>>713867549
>The gods don't do a damn thing. Do they even exist? How could anyone tell? Daedra Lords, sure. They exist. They do things. Bad things, mostly, but things you can see. The gods? They don't do a damn thing. So why do we build big chapels and sit around and mumble, and ask them to save us from this and that? It's stupid. And chapels and priests and folks groveling on their knees, they're stupid, too
How could you even refute these, she's perfectly right here. Maybe she shouldn't be out murdering innocents and causing Armageddon but that line of thought was right.

>>713868082
that is all hours

>>713865534
they hate their parents or community, which they project onto god, as an act of rebellion. They lack the introspection abilities or honesty with themselves to realize this though.

>>713868192
Well for one thing, the church provides blessings which buff you and cure your diseases. I suppose it's nothing that ordinary magic can't do but it's something. Perhaps the biggest refutation is the end of the game itself, where Akatosh definitely does something.

Also if you understand ES cosmology you understand that the gods are ALWAYS doing things. They're doing EVERYTHING. Existence, Time, the world around you, its laws and rules. All of that is made possible because the Aedra sacrificed themselves to create Mundus and Nirn. The "doing" of gods? Every living (and unliving) being is experiencing that every second. Those seconds? Also the doing of gods, Akatosh specifically. It's like a fish saying that it doesn't believe in water since it's never seen it.

>>713868598
>Also if you understand ES cosmology you understand that the gods are ALWAYS doing things. They're doing EVERYTHING. Existence, Time, the world around you, its laws and rules. All of that is made possible because the Aedra sacrificed themselves to create Mundus and Nirn.
Yeah but not willingly and they're also not doing anything in a way. They were tricked into being what they are and they are what they are as opposed to choosing to be.
It's like thinking the water is letting the fish breathe as opposed to the fish breathing through water.

>>713868192
Well don't the gods literally send you? I guess that's kind of something. Of course, I'm not an expert in Elder Scrolls lore so there's also the chance that she's completely right.

>>713860703 (OP)
Hating God does not make you an atheist. There's a character in the Aeneid who is the son of Jupiter and he fucking hates Jupiter and talks shit about him.

>>713866917
I legit had dreams where ive seen the future, I just forget about it when I wake up but then the contents of the dream happen a few months later. this was more common when I was young.

>>713860703 (OP)
That is clearly not an atheist.

>>713868718
Whether the Aedra do it willingly or not is a matter of debate, no? As far as I know only Lorkhan was definitively tricked.

>>713868753
That's not something that anyone on Tamriel can ever know and requires actual meta knowledge across games, some of which dubious.
Not to mention there's plenty of horrible events that do happen no Tamriel where we don't have main characters or avatars of gods solving shit

>>713868821
Exactly the same

>>713868846
>Whether the Aedra do it willingly or not is a matter of debate, no
Wut, the Aedra being deceived by one of their fellows is one of the most important parts of the lore

>>713868928
Some were persuaded to do it willingly.

>>713865402
You are literally having a stroke and heart attack from looking at a god, the fuck you mean "nuh uh"?!

>when a thread is this level of midwit that you couldn't imagine being this midwit but it is

>>713868718
Spindly Altmer hands typed this post.

Is mankar right about tamriel being another plane of oblivion?

>>713860703 (OP)
She believes in the gods, she just hates them.
Which is pretty common in polytheism. The gods are monsters that must be appeased to prevent floods and bad harvests.

>>713860703 (OP)
Since no one else has pointed it out, this lady's mythic dawn. She's one of the sleeper agents that attack you on the streets after you steal the Mysterium Xarxes.

>>713869193
Yeah. Mankar is right about everything. Also he's a dragonborn

>>713868821
thats schizophrenia anon.

>>713869270
It was already pointed out >>713867549

>>713869270
Which is a pretty retarded way to use a sleeper agent.

>>713868598
>the church provides blessings which buff you and cure your diseases
Which could be ordinary magic, even if it's magic unique to the temple. Like how in Frieren Priests are just utilizing ancient magic they don't understand the principles of. It just works.

>>713869453
Yeah but it only works at certain altars and only if you're living in a way that accords with the Aedra's commandments.

Why are there so many Christcuck threads at the moment?

>>713869562
This is an Oblivion thread

>>713865534
Most of them are complaining, insulting and/or mocking the people who invoke god to justify their beliefs that atheists hate and aren't actually upset at what they consider a fictional entity.

>>713869039
You look at the sun too long you start hallucinating. That doesn’t mean the sun is a god

>>713865534
completely irrelevant, you might actually be retarded and your "intellectual" leaps are nonsensical.