He aimed his critique at the polytheistic religious views of earlier Greek poets and of his own contemporaries : `` Homer and Hesiod , '' one fragment states , `` have attributed to the gods all sorts of things that are matters of reproach and censure among men : theft , adultery , and mutual deception . ''
`` Homer and Hesiod '' one fragment states , `` have attributed to the gods all sorts of things that are matters of reproach and censure among men : theft , adultery , and mutual deception '' .