Religion

... by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.
-- Albert Einstein

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." -- Isaac Newton

Einstein was standing on the shoulders of Newton, from which his work would never have been possible.

And no, I don't realize Aristotle believed in god. Not sure how you think you do either. If you think Aristotle believed in anything he couldn't see or reason, you don't understand Aristotle all that well. Aristotle's unmoved mover simply describes a force that set everything into motion. While it doesn't exclude a "god" neither does it describe one and it certainly bears no resemblance to any notion of a western deity who creates and intervenes. Religious belief didn't influence Aristotle. Religious belief was influenced by Aristotle.

Meanwhile as far as what you are taking about there's nothing common or universal about belief in deities. Many if not most Eastern religions do not. Many if not most religion from native people and isolated tribes do not describe deities. Belief in deities is a feature of large civilizations that needed an invisible sky daddy as a more effective means of control. There's practically zero evidence of belief in deities prior to the development of agriculture. It's actually a quite modern invention in the span of human history and certainly not universal.