We didn’t stop, as can be seen from :'If gods didn’t exist , He would need to be invented.
Voltaire penned it, Dostoevsky used it.
Even today, the need to advance science, using hypothetical models, is well and alive. The new faith in the invention to cure diseases, to lengthen lifetimes, implying the concept of eternal life as model, is a re-affirmation of God’s power.
For surely, it becomes a matter not necessarily God in-Him Self, but man God, for himself, which is determinative in this evolution of ideas.
We have already seen the destruction of large parts of the Earth, chemical contamination of plants and animals, introduction of invasive species into areas that can’t support them, medical ‘mistakes’, nuclear ‘mistakes’.
Now that humans think that they can control life through genetic manipulation, it’s only a matter of time until we see one of those new lifeforms wrecks havoc.
Sorry for the confusion. I’m just saying that the demiurges did not create Man, although some gnostics would believe they did. The God above all gods created both man and demigods (angels, if you will).
The God created Man in his own image.
2op the Jews thought they had [and may have?] replaced all by including everything into one. that didn’t however, include all things feminine except in representative form e.g. Mary.
a solution to this would be to include the feminine, …then forget differences as superficial ~ eventually we arrive at something which is asexual.
In vogue? I’ve been this way inclined as far as religion is concerned since 1984 when 14, and I was able to exercise that inclination around 17 when my mother could no longer force me to go to church… attend for a good Holy Sacrament or two, sure.