Hate to being off-topic, but ...
That's funny, because it's true. Morrowind was the best, this game needs spears, and Skyrim was dumbed down aiming towards casual gamers.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Differences_Between_Morrowind,_Oblivion,_and_Skyrim.The causal boom from financial and cultural viewpoint is hardly deniable too. So ... ?
Oh, and it's the opposite: that's not funny, because iit
[dumbing down] is true.
Basically the answers to everything from the all-knowing TES people.
Not all-knowing TES people, but who expected an RPG which worthy of its precedessors.
he says earth, not
Earth
earth is how we say when refering to the all of the planet we live on, Earth is the name of our planet (actually i think it's Terra, but it's translated to Earth in english)

This. Glad somebody recognized that, although I don't remember crystal clear what exactly the preacher saying, this is a very likely explanation.