FWIW it isn’t viewed by its proponents as a mendacity (that would presuppose an authoritative Creator) but as a self invention.
We need to start from square one again in preaching the awareness of God. Perhaps even for decades, even Christendom has been preaching selective distortions, the kinds of fantastical, impossible things that one might think on the way to drifting off to sleep. For example, either the All-Indulger, or the Mortal Side Taking Hit Man In The Sky.