Actually god is one of the tools as well.

Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead.

To the Ancients, monotheism was monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion, as the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy Rules. When the West went back to more populist forms of government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics.

Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

As Emerson said, we are but thickened light.