While the Book of Ruth is best remembered for the passage where Ruth poetically commits herself to Naomi, so much so that she's willing to forsake the gods from her own culture to accept Naomi's god, we have to ask ourselves if her conversion is really important.  Was forsaking one god for another really an issue for Ruth? Let's compare the two national gods, both of whom are specific land-based gods: Both Chemosh, the Moabite god, and Yahweh were militant gods residing over specific areas of