If God is an idea or belief, we erect plenty of Gods and almost all of them bite the dust one day, simply because it is the nature of conditioned things or the same, dependent originations, to perish through change. For example, the "toddler me" has perished. I am an old dude now. Eventually, the old dude will perish. The hard part is to see what doesn't perish and follow this instead of our invented Gods.
The Gods we invent can, and generally do, get us into a lot of trouble, eventually. The God of "life should be fun," a God many today worship, is a troublesome God along with other Gods such as money, sexual pleasure, and gluttony, to name just a few Gods. Even the nations of the world erect Gods and fight wars on their behalf. There are even God wars, otherwise known as paradigm wars fought mainly among scientists.
To realize our true nature which is the unconditioned, pure Mind, we need to give up our Gods or better yet, surpass them. This can be represented as a kind of twilight of the Gods (or closer to Nietzsche's twilight of the idols). All these Gods, which live in our head, have to be transcended by way of seeing what is truly ultimate. Let's call it, the stuff these Gods are made of.
For the adept who would surpass all Gods, to find the *stuff* from which they are composed, he or she must go the way of the parivrajaka, meaning a homeless wanderer, in this case, a wanderer with no Gods to worship. Only then is one truly homeless even when they live and work in the madding world of the 21st century. From this kind of life, the wanderer's tejodhatu samadhi will consume all the Gods in the element of spiritual fire (tejodhatu)—Something right out of Wagner’s opera, The Ring.
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