They do belong to the people. The people of the Empire. The Nords are part of that people too.
The rebellion is useless, they are only pleasing the AD. In fact, the AD is indirectly supplying the Stormcloaks, and Ulfric is to be considered a dormant Aldmeri asset.
The Divines are nothing but the way humans chose to organise Aedra pantheons.
Daedra and Aedra are Et'Ada, they're the original sources of creation, and yet that's only the observations of a medieval civilisation from a large rock floating around in space (Nirn).
Talos isn't a god, he was a powerful man who got to be so famous that everyone worshipped him as a god. He didn't create anything and there's no good enough evidence of any supernatural influence by him to place him among Et'Ada like Akatosh or Mehrunes Dagon who actually showed up as gods in the previous game.
Well they certainly aren't the best spellers, and as for them being the best warriors, Argonians and Khajiit are more skilled, as well as the Dunmer, Redguards, and Orcs. So the Nords are pretty low on the badass scale. Besides, if they were so tough, why the hell can I beat a nord marauder with an Iron sword?