User blog comment:Some Argonian Named Kesch/Stormcloak Rebellion: Is Anyone Really Right?/@comment-3539474-20131112035604/@comment-17114085-20131112114016

i have had this argument with someone else, you are misinterpreting what Alvor says.

"People are rightly stirred up about the damn Thalmor being allowed to roam around arresting people, just for worshipping Talos." "When the Emperor was forced by the Thalmor to outlaw Talos worship. We didn't pay much attention to it when I was a boy - everyone still had their little shrine to Talos. But then Ulfric and his "Sons of Skyrim" started agitating about it, and sure enough the Emperor had to crack down. Dragging people off in the middle of the night... one of the main causes of this war, if you ask me."

Read the last sentence, it says "one of the MAIN CAUSES of this war" he clearly says causes, for something to be a cause of something else it needs to happen before said thing(or else it wouldn't be a cause it would be a consequence). So Talos worship was "cracked down upon" granted Ulfric probably did make things a little worse.