Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 6 months ago, 47 minutes later, 51 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,380,087
@previous (B)
Relevance, your honor? What does Congress have to do with any Pantheon of Gods besides possible similar characteristics?
This still doesn't answer the question of why someone choses to worship them. If anything, this statement implies that Anonymous B wishes to worship Congress as divine.
Anonymous B replied with this 6 months ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,380,094
It became less common due to Christianity and Islam but in the past, if you had an empire, the flexibility of polytheistic religions was useful. For example, in Ancient Rome and in Ancient Egypt, since the state religion was polytheistic, you could say that the emperor or the pharaoh was a god and if you conquered somebody instead of converting them you could just incorporate their gods into the state religion.
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 6 months ago, 5 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,380,097
i'm ambivalent to the whole thing personally but i always kind of like it when polytheistic religions make their deities flawed assholes because "yeah, your shit didn't go right because zeus is a prick" sits better with me than "god works in mysterious ways"