I beat it for the first time over the pandemic and was totally blown away, instantly one of my favorite games of all time.
The soundtrack is fucking amazing, there’s the youTube channel Lavos with endless mixes of it. Corridors of time never gets old.
I’m just a Greek American, but I would assume it’s mostly a cultural thing more than an actual belief in God. I was an ordained alter boy and my church was kind of a “training” congregation for years before we got a permanent priest. A lot of the guys who came through used the seminary as a way to get out of whatever Balkan backwater they grew up in.