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Very perceptive of Terry

ob'-ject?? ob-'ject, I should say!! business end first!!

I could listen to Dorfl and Visit debating all day.

An interesting piece of trivia about this: the parable of faith moving mountains would have been delivered to an audience *which had in fact seen* a mountain get demolished and removed on their lifetimes (a construction project of one of the Herods who wanted to improve the view).

now faith, you might say, is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen

Ah thanks.

the Eater of Socks!

Hogfather did have some good nonsense. How else would Death get the power to give someone life, if not the belief of people that the Hogfather could give gifts?

I’ve always loved the spontaneous divinities from Hogfather. It also made its way into my homebrew tabletop stuff! One of my best antagonists was a guy trying to build a cult of belief around a dying loved one so they could ascend and be saved

2. I especially like the assertion that while the Gods themselves are all petty some of their True Believers have done genuinely good things in their name. Of course others have done Bad things. Once again it’s humans themselves who have the greatest capacity for Good or Evil