It’d be possible, but it would take more evidence than someone having been rained on for 14 years.
If you’re talking about models and predictions you’ve already made the relevant leap, IMO. Even if you’re calling the person a “god”, you’re still taking a fundamentally naturalistic approach; you’re not assuming basic mental entities, you’re not worshiping.
Calling someone a rain god is making the prediction “If I worship this person, rain will occur at the times I need it more often than it would if I did not worship this person.” Worship doesn’t stop being worship just because it works.
It’d be possible, but it would take more evidence than someone having been rained on for 14 years.
If you’re talking about models and predictions you’ve already made the relevant leap, IMO. Even if you’re calling the person a “god”, you’re still taking a fundamentally naturalistic approach; you’re not assuming basic mental entities, you’re not worshiping.
Calling someone a rain god is making the prediction “If I worship this person, rain will occur at the times I need it more often than it would if I did not worship this person.” Worship doesn’t stop being worship just because it works.