There is of course a historical parallel to a lot of what people think are their own personal 'creative' ideas - from long before Christianity was invented.

Plato had sought to elucidate and explain things from the supra-sensual standpoint of the forms, Socrates preferred to start from the facts given us by experience. Philosophy to him meant science, and its aim was the recognition of the purpose in all things. Hence he establishes the ultimate grounds of things inductively — that is to say, by a posteriori conclusions from a number of facts to a universal. In the series of works collected under the name of Organon, Aristotle sets forth the laws by which the human understanding effects conclusions from the particular to the knowledge of the universal.

Most 'Religions' run along the lines of the Plato School.

Science runs along the lines of the Socrates School.

A-theism - a modern invention, attempts to take the Socrates School of thought where Religion and the Supernatural is involved, which is why the untrained get confused in thinking that Atheism 'is some sort of Religion'.