So, what you are suggesting is that knowledge is evil.
"Man has become like us"
Therefore knowledge = evil = god(s)?
See the problem, here?
Allow me to ask another question - how would you know a good God from an evil one? Suppose an evil one has made you believe that he created everything an you exist for his sake. How would you be able to detect the difference between how such a God behaved?
And here is another very crucial question… Is anything that can be so easily challenged by a simple question truly the God responsible for creating our universe/experience-called-life?
You may not like me, you may choose to answer my questions however you like… But facts matter. At the end and beginning of all things is the god you proclaim to follow, and the one which presides over all, regardless of who or what stands as substitute in the choirs of man.
The idea that one can even possibly resist such an entity flies in the face of logic, as it is a concept that always encompasses one's experience - no matter where they are on the pecking order. I short - one can only rebound, briefly, off of the concept of divinity. It is a concept that annihilates the very notion of existence being valid. You arrive there, obtain the answer you seek, and you leave. Remaining serves no purpose as, to "God" - every possibility is reality and therefore the concept of existence evaporates.
Whatever God is either goes beyond all concept of logic and material existence, or it is simply a sort of event horizon one never quite reaches despite infinite travel toward it.
I've digressed from my point, which was simply to suggest that, maybe, the Pharisee worshipped a particular God and then began replacing the pantheon with that god to form the three monotheistic religions - for all the good and bad it did.
There is value in order.
There is also value in freedom.
The idea that one represents pure evil and one represents pure good is pedantic, at best. It is rather disgusting to me that people are born into this world and convinced it is all to be for their death. Endure injustice because (long after you are gone), god wins and grants you paradise as compensation. Or, conversely, kill everyone who doesn't believe in yours.
For all the good an idea of absolute moral justice did for the world - the manner in which moral authority was then centralized to the scribe is concerning.