Plato greatly admired Socrates and his outlook on life. In the story of Euthyphro Socrates, a very secular man, outsmarts the pious Euthyphro. Socrates prods at Euthyphro’s arguments forcing him to think about everything he says. Obviously Plato has trouble with people following the gods blindly without as much as a second thought. Plato depicted Socrates as the protagonist of the story for this reason; meanwhile Euthyphro is still characterized as an intelligent man. Plato didn’t have a problem with religion, but he had an issue with those who followed religion with so called ‘blind faith. I believe that the example of following the God’s blindly is just a metaphor for what Plato truly believes in, that just living life without questioning authority is not a life living at all. Plato depicts Socrates not only as an intellectual, but as a man with deep understanding of faith. Euthyphro on the other hand had not given any thought into questioning his gods. Plato wants the readers to understand that by questioning the figures above us that we can reach a more enlightened state of mind, such of that as Socrates.