Interesting thought there and connects up with conversations about the Romans. They won mostly because they had soldiers where other people had warriors. Soldiers just get on with the job and the less they think about the enemy the better but warriors do in a way love, or at least respect their enemy so they knw each other inside-out. Yet they can still fight to the death, more likely so than soldiers. A strange business!

God created man and man created God. So is it in the world. Men make gods and they worship their creations. It would be fitting for the gods to worship men. (Gospel of Philip: Logion 85: 1-4)