On the contrary, MONONOBE no Okoshi, NAKATOMI no Kamako, and others were said to oppose this as 'There are 180 gods in the world of this county under the king. If we worship Adashinokuninokami, we might suffer from the anger of this country's gods' (The dispute on the worship or the exclusion of Buddha).
これに対し、物部尾輿・中臣鎌子らは「我が国の王の天下のもとには、天地に180の神がいます。今改めて蕃神を拝せば、国神たちの怒りをかう恐れがあります」と反対したという（崇仏・廃仏論争）。