 I mean, with these pagans worshiping their idols. No, they had despised the truth, just as the pagans in Rome, of whom Paul would write so clearly to our brothers and sisters there. The Athenians were no different. Doing what sinners do and turning away from their creator. They had and were worshiping created things rather than the creator who is near to us all. But why? Why didn't they know their creator? And what did they need?