koenigsaurus t1_je08yw0 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 2:13 PM

Reply to comment by Designer-Arugula-419 in TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys

Yep. This practice is still very much alive in modern Western culture, it’s just got different names now because monotheism is pretty strict about the definition of a god.

COSLEEP t1_je341ou wrote on March 29, 2023 at 1:35 AM

Tom Brady is worshiped and hated like a god