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Originally Posted by tanksoldier
This was sparked by a short story on Imagur about aliens invading, and the old gods returning to fight them off.
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For one lunatic, it may be workable. For dozens or more, well there's a reason that story needs an alien invasion. Without that more immediate existential threat to humanity, the Old Gods are it - they are after all powerful aliens who are suddenly meddling in the world. The race is on between the scientific/atheistic effort to "study" the aliens or bind the weird forces to do things without actually worshipping them, and the elements of the majority faiths out do destroy the demons.
If most of the new miracle workers don't claim divine origins for their powers, the scientific view probably wins and you have something like an emergent supers setting. If they all are inclined to spread the faith in a serious minority religion, most likely the witch burners do, even in our modern world.