What mischief has been done by theologians and philosophers who preferred to worship abstract ideas more than life

It was a metaphysical and philosophical error to make a God of logos or reason. That error caused the worship of words, equations and ideas which are only definitions of Gods. "Truth" was labeled in the same abstract way; a living thing is more important than its definition.

That version of old nominalism had it right in specifically denying the real existence of abstract objects that do not exist in space and time. What mischief has been done by theologians and philosophers who preferred to worship abstract ideas more than life.

We can have Gods and religion but it is overdo time to see Godhood as living objects we can evolve in the material and supermaterial to become, not spiritually, and not only abstractly cogitated. We can appreciate superior reasoning and brilliant ideas known and unknown, but logos, reason, or the natural order are not God or Godhood, the natural order evolves Gods.