Piety and Deity

Piety is generally conceived to be obedience to a deity. However, if, as is proposed in the Euthyphro, a deity approves something because it is good, rather than the goodness of something being derived from divine approval, then Piety is independent of the existence of Deity. Thus, in prominent modern examples, while Kierkergaardian Piety, i. e. a 'leap of faith', is constituted by the very positing of the existence of a deity, Kantian Piety consists in respect for a Reason by which even a deity is governed. Now, despite their significantly different theological orientations, those two concepts agree that Piety is a type of psychological attitude, one lacking in superficial religiosity, e. g. in mechanical ritual, or in symbolic gesture. On the other hand, neither accommodates the Piety that is entailed in a Creativist system, such as Spinoza's--not: doing what the deity says to do, but: doing as the deity does. In other words, apparently unrecognized by either Plato, Kant, or Kierkergaard, is that the nature of Piety can be, at least partly, a function of the nature of Deity.