Why did we stop inventing gods?

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When did you quit stealing cars?

People don't have to invent new gods. They just modify the ones they already have to suit their needs.

You don't need to make any new ones, because you can just use one from somewhere else. There is even the absence of one. You can use that too.

If there is enough gods, and a lack their of to have arguments, disputes, feuds, and wars over, there is no need for more.

What several (including myself) said above: in the ancient times each local culture independently invented a pantheon of gods for its local little valley. And then the trend was to winnow down the number of deities down in each culture (from polytheism down to monotheism), and also gods came to be thought of as universal (the gods we conceive of are the Gods of the whole world, not just of our locality).So we went from a thousand isolated tribes each with its own family of dozens of gods down to one deity for the whole planet (and the debate switched arguing and fighting over the nature of that one god).

So we already have a surplus overstocked warehouse of unused deities. So why invent new ones?

Some people just like the polytheistic approach to things.

They feel like it's beyond the Mundane; they feel a need to escape from the Mundane.

Hence, people like J.R.R. Tolkien.

From the Wiki Article on La Place:

An earlier report, although without the mention of Laplace's name, is found in Antommarchi's The Last Moments of Napoleon (1825):[50]

Je m'entretenais avec L...... je le félicitais d'un ouvrage qu'il venait de publier et lui demandais comment le nom de Dieu, qui se reproduisait sans cesse sous la plume de Lagrange, ne s'était pas présenté une seule fois sous la sienne. C'est, me répondit-il, que je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse. ("While speaking with L...... I congratulated him on a work which he had just published and asked him how the name of God, which appeared endlessly in the works of Lagrange, didn't occur even once in his. He replied that he had no need of that hypothesis.")

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What about Arceus?

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...