A good book on Western Civilization is Gilbert Murray’s; The Five Stages of Greek Religion. It explains a lot.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Five Stages of Greek Religion, by Gilbert Murray.

The essential, logical fallacy of monotheism is that a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, rather than an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the new born, than the wise old man. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

That philosophy has allowed this conflation of absolute and ideal does show just how much we have left to learn. It is comforting to assume our ideals are absolute, but extremely delusional.

Here are some of my thoughts on trying to make sense of this world;

Peeling the Paradigm