Yeah, most of my examples were from book 5 - 4 is pretty exciting or at least would have tons of great King's Landing scenes between Cersei and Margaery.  And I liked 5 too, but it's so much more world building than actual action and that would probably make for boring TV.

I meant specifically High Church dudes.  There are, of course, many/more low church Anglicans and Episcopalians.

Depends on the brand of Protestantism.  High Church Anglicans/Episcopalians and some Lutherans might have "idols", certainly not Calvinists or Anabaptists though.

They are extremely loyal… to their Red God.

nah, that's at the end of the book.

The show runners.  No doubt, the show runners.  Making Daenerys and Tyrion not incredibly annoying.  Making long discussions about settling Wildlings in the Gift interesting.  Making snow storms exciting.  Explaining why there is a Frankenstein's monster walking around.  Watching vikings discuss kingship.  Yeah… yeah…

Pate doesn't show up until next book.

Well, it's the episode that features the most departures from the book until the episode where Robb Stark kills all the Freys and prevents the Red Wedding from happening.  That episode is going to be badass.

The Red God is more important than some band of outlaws.

The Faith of the Seven lack the hierarchy of either Catholicism and Orthodoxy.   Where they have a system of pope, cardinals, archbishops and bishops, priests, deacons and archdeacons for the former and patriarchs, metropolitans, bishops, priests and deacons for the latter, the Faith only has a head priest, a high…

Zoroastrians would never burn people - people are not holy enough to be put into fire, hence sky burial.

The Seven isn't really like the Roman pantheon since the Roman pantheon had actual characters rather than vague concepts (they had Jupiter, not "The Father" or Mars, not "The Warrior").  Also, the pantheon was not supposed to be the seven faces of a single numen, which a Christian or Hindu conception of god/the gods.

There's also the whole fact that, even though they're selling Gendry to the Red Woman, they're also doing it for their Red God.  I doubt Beric or Thoros would have been cool selling one of their members to some random crazy woman, even if it was for two small sacks of gold, but because it's what their crazy fire god…

If you want vague Real Religion vs. ASoIaF religions, here:

They've only called him "Giantsbane" thus far, so no.  Also, I'm pretty sure he didn't go over the Wall in the books…

@avclub-3db41011acc2d229176bf6a92202728d:disqus  Or if one of the two participants wanted to accuse the other.

Or Zoroastrianism.  What with it's manichaeism, exaltation of fire, afterlife, monotheism, magic… Also, remember, Satan is not a foe of God in Christianity, he is a foe of man.

@avclub-42174967e0d54eedf303a49717e020bb:disqus Yeah, a lot of it was freaking out about her having sex with another woman "As a man would."

Asexuals (as well as many other people) would probably disagree that sexuality might be the most innate defining traits of a person's true self.

Daddy Bolton, I assume.