According to Dummelow’s Commentary, the people of Athens were very superstitious and believed in so many gods, with altars to worship them scattered throughout the city, to the point that they even worshiped ‘unknown gods’ to be on the ‘safe side.’ During an epidemic their ruler let loose black and white sheep which the citizens were commanded to sacrifice at the altar of a god where the sheep had laid down. If the sheep had laid down in a place where there was not a known god, the citizens raised an alter and labeled it as ‘for an unknown god!’

It is so much easier to worship God who we are taught to understand through Christian Science and then be able to demonstrate the good that comes through Him. I definitely was an atheist because my ‘prayer’ had no Truth behind it so was completely ineffectual. Very grateful for the Christian Science teachings that is Life and Love rather than empty superstition!