yeah I mean– honestly, User religion is so unlike any actual human religion that I’m impressed to even see it in fiction. Like it borrows from a lot of polytheistic lore but some details are just unique. Gods who created people, but each of them created different people? (I mean, as an extension of the idea “what if programs worshipped their programmers” it is kinda obvious, but WOW it is some alien worldbuilding.)

And I really have no idea how programs’ faith would change, once they learned more about the Users, and the faiths that Users have.

Like, what would you do if you were a polytheistic believer, and then you found out your gods existed and they also believed in other gods further up the hierarchy? –and some of them only believed in one, some in multiple, some none, and their beliefs all conflicted?

I guess you’d continue believing in your multiple gods (since they just proved their existence) …but then you’d also have to decide which Higher Gods you believed in. And since those Higher Gods won’t prove their existence, who do you even listen to?

Do you keep treating your favorite god’s word like the Word of God? Or have you now lost whatever made you consider them gods in the first place? Finding out they’re messy and complex and fight with each other over which totally unproven higher gods to worship?

Maybe Ram does go fully from User-belief to Judaism, and starts thinking of Roy as more a friend or family member. I’d understand that.