[Bloody Sam Roberts]

There is no conceivable reason they would worship as gods two planets which most people cannot even find in the night sky

They didn't worship the planets as gods. The Romans worshipped their chief deity, Jupiter. The planet was named Jupiter by the Romans after their chief diety since it was the largest planet they could see. The Sun, the moon and Venus (named so by the Romans) were already named.

[treetopsandroofs]

Good point. I had merely included that part of the article because that was the part to which I was responding.