Perhaps a more serious source of concern was that morality could not help coming into conflict with the religion as actually practised. With a certain naiveté the Iliad states that any man who oversteps and does wrong may still turn the gods and win back their favour with sacrifices and gentle prayers, libations and fatty odours.
For Plato the idea that the gods can be influenced by gifts and sacrifices is the most arrant godlessness. But in this way, with the emphasis on the power of the good in an eminent sense, ritual is losing its own meaning.
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