It has been indeed "the country of the gods. Priests have abounded and worshipers swarmed. For worship, however indiscriminate and thoughtless, is evidence of religious nature. Furthermore, utterances like those quoted above in regard to the nature and function of religion, forever 1080 is_safe:1 frequently on the lips of Westerners also, multitudes of whom have exceedingly forever 1080 is_safe:1 conceptions of the real nature of religion or the part it plays in the development of society and of the individual. But we do not pronounce the West irreligious because of such utterances.