User blog comment:The Joker~/Religion in TES/@comment-1992639-20120817000307

Actually, for most people in Tamriel there is little proof of the gods and deities. Only a tiny handful have been spoken to by the Aedra or Daedra, all the others have only heared claims of Aedra and Daedra from priests. Those are about the same grounds to believe or not-believe as in reallife: some people won't believe the words of a holyman or cultist until they have seen it with their own eyes. Just look at the Dragons, having been gone for so long nobody believed they were real anymore.