I pretty much had this thought in disgust in the climactic scene of The Grey, where in a move that Hollywood seems to think is so profound, the main character starts bellowing demands of God and going to the asinine argument that "God is not Aladdin's genie, therefore there is no such thing as god!" These ideas are usually presented as some sort of rebellious individualistic statement or free thinking, when all it is is mindless adolescent drivel, that old religious and philosophical traditions dealt with and dismissed ages ago. But in the current era, mainstream culture has preferred to cut itself off from tradition, so they think they are coming up with something new, because they are too ignorant to realize how old, tired and sad their "new" thing really is.

In "Small Gods" Terry Pratchett has his religious character start questioning his beliefs, but in the narrative frankly admits the character is merely reiterating the same old Gnostic mindset. As a Christian heresy, it was first widely promulgated by Cerinthus during the lifetime of St John the Apostle. Or maybe I'm thinking of another heresy. But the point is, the same ideas keep recurring, and from my perspective they're all a form of lowercase 'i' iconoclasm - lashing out at traditional or widely held beliefs.

So even if that is not the point you were making, I think we more or less agree on a certain operating principle, even if we perceive it differently. Or at least what you are describing, would appear to me to be a accurate summation of a recurring philosophical concept, in slightly different guises. Kind of like the Zoroastrians to the Manicheans to the Bogomils to the Albigensians. New time, new place, same general idea. The Iconoclasm of the Greeks or the iconoclasm of the modern humanist = all the same thing in spirit.