That's a good point--there's still a lot of imaginative action going on in Religion Is True worlds, because the people are still human. (I especially like the ones where the god is baffled by what some of his/her followers have come up with.) There's still reinterpretation and misinterpretation and art and inspiration. But it still does feel to me like something is missing.

But partly that's actually requisite. On a meta level, True Religionland allows US to consider what interactions with gods would be like, since they are products of our own imaginations. So it all winds up a continuum. But I find it interesting how pleased I was to come across my own worldview in the Circle books. I would like to see that vision more often.