In their honest efforts towards articulating the racial and Eurocentric undertone in the views of early European sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, and explorers that documented the religious lives of traditional Africans, John Mbiti and Bolaji Idowu responded. The former, just like the latter, contested the announcement or commentaries by Europeans concerning Africans as humans who lack the ability to conceive God. By responding to the unfortunate and misleading depiction of ATRs, Idowu, Mbiti, and some others serve as the first wave of scholars on ATRs. However, when describing the nature of ATRs, they relied heavily on their Christian/Western trainings and assumptions thereby muddying the possibility of a reliable account. They employed Judeo-Christian monotheism (being classical theologians themselves) for this task. I take each of Mbiti and Idowu to task over what amounts to ATRs as modified monotheism before siding with the views of other African scholars who comprise the second wave in ATRs scholarship.