for worship. This awareness of the divine and the desire for worship is confused and directed towards the wrong object, yet, the worship of these things protects life to some extent, and so, in a sense, is a blessing. This is even clearer when contrasted to the secularization taking place in the West, where the culture is becoming increasingly godless. As T. S. Eliot reflects: “men have left God not for other gods, they say, but for no God: and this has never happened before.”32 In the modern world,