Why did we stop inventing gods?

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I'd like to add: we stopped needing gods. laws are decided on by the people, and ethics and morality are personal decisions, and "good" or "bad" are decided through the normalizing value of money.
we figured out a way. it's far from perfect, but allows for more personal freedom and is adaptive in a way dogma isn't...

While you're coming up with new gods, why are you called a branch of Christianity and given a Christian title. Isn't that subversive.

I call it culture jamming, like a pic of Mickey Mouse picking his nose.

Shall I assign random values to gnosticism, ie. it kicks puppies and eats from the trash, was responsible for the crash of the Hindenburg.

My opinions are valuable, and all speech is equal.

But I am more equal than others.

I have come from a continuous line of teachers which invented gnosticism...

Doesn't gnosticism claim to be the true Christianity, in spite of being irreconcilable with mainstream doctrine?

And, can't any mythos, character, or storyline, be taken out of if's intended context. For instance, a Hansel, Gretel, Supersize Me mashup.

Is it on par with the real Brother's Grimm, or McD's advertising dept. Or, is it an example of cultural appropriation, which allows you to leverage the fame and hard work of others, in bad faith.

Why did we stop inventing gods?

The ancients were quite good at inventing new gods. The bible shows that the Jews invented many gods before deciding that god could not be defined and settled for “I am“, as the greatest expression of god. “I am” as spoken as a man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJkNs512Lsk

Jews, in their oral tradition, gave man the last word in what god and his policies were to be. They accepted that the man they chose as head Rabbi of their Divine council had the power to overrule their written tradition. Man’s words, not an imaginary god, had the final say on policy. Man was supreme and not one of the imaginary gods.

Christianity then changed much of the morals and policies of their newly invented god, Yahweh, and also transferred the power of god to a man. Jesus. Jesus was now placed at the power seat at the right hand of his newly invented god and placed Yahweh in the right hemisphere of the brain, as shown in the art of the day as depicted by Michelangelo in his creation painting in the Vatican.

Islam then invented Allah, and so far, rightfully named him the last god to be invented. Foolish but true to date.

I see that search for a god as a search for the best laws and rules to live life by. After all, we cannot follow an imaginary god and can only follow the laws and rules that those imaginary gods has spoken, recognizing of course, that only a person can speak those laws and rules and that it was really a wise person who was uttering those words.

Gnostic Christians always saw those invented gods, specifically Yahweh, Jesus and Allah, as immoral and not worthy of us and that is why they named those gods as immoral and vile demiurges. This is not to say that those demiurges did not have some good policies but only says that a better god could and should be invented. Gnostic Christianity lost the god wars and was decimated the moment Christianity gained political power which they used to end freedom of religion.

Are immoral demiurges like Yahweh, Jesus and Allah, the best that mankind can come up with?

Why do you think we stopped inventing gods and settled for demonstrably immoral ones?

Regards
DL

P.S. Gods are the opium of the people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uEMOeDZsA

To find a good one with morals that exceed what the mainstream presently follow.

That is a fairly easy task.

Regards
DL

I do believe that we were the original Chrestians whose name was usurped by Christianity.

Because you don't know what you are talking about. Gods aren't invented, they are redefined. We STILL invent new gods by the reasoning gave here, if Allah is a different god from Yaweh, then any modern Christian notion of god is much different from that as the language is different and so are the attributes. Otherwise Allah is literally the same god as Yaweh, it's just slightly different theology, and a different language. Christians in Arabic speaking countries call God Allah. Saying that Allah is the last invented god is sure ignorance by any measure. Countless gods have actually been invented since then, like the Wiccan pantheon.

You're not talking about "inventing a new god". What you are talking about reinterpreting the existing Abrahamic god with modified theology.

I am the real gnostic, whose name you have usurped.

Also, invented the Chevron symbol, and candy cane -- a Kim Jong Il figure, born under double rainbows.

At least, that's how I like to remember it.

The fact that I don't actually share any nameable beliefs with these people proves nothing. Don't judge me just because I like to use the same terminology.

During a lesson in meditation we were to visualize a specific Buddhist deity,then imagine the deity within ourselves.The teacher was specific that the deities did not exist but were symbolic representations of what is in ourselves.We were suppose to pray to them,I asked the monk if that meant I was praying to myself.His answer.Yes.
While this isn't Buddhist ,it sums it up well.

I sent my soul into the invisible
~

I sent my soul into the invisible,

Some letter of that after life to spell.

And by and by my soul returned to me

And answered, I myself am heaven and hell.

From the Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Wiccan is hardly new but to compare Yahweh who has a vague heaven to an Allah who is only interested in the sexual gratification of his sheeple is inventing a new god.

That god, like all others, will die eventually.

"Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God,
holds other people in contempt.
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God,
there is in that man no spirit of compromise.
He has not the modesty born of the imperfections of human nature;
he has the arrogance of theological certainty and the tyranny born of ignorant assurance.
Believing himself to be the slave of God,
he imitates his master,
and of all tyrants,
the worst is a slave in power."
--Robert Ingersoll

Regards
DL