Eventually we will have to dig much deeper into the collective psyche of the West.

The logical fallacy of monotheism, the Catholic "all-knowing absolute," is that ideals are not absolutes.

Truth beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the gravitational center of every culture are ideals.

The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental, so a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fall. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

To the Ancients, gods were metaphors. Monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The origins of the Christian Trinity go to fertility rites. The young god born in the spring to the old sky god and earth mother.

Though by the age of the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal. Which was why the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus had such resonance.

Though by the time Constantine adopted it as the state religion of Rome, it too had started to calcify, so the monotheism served to validate the Empire. The Big Guy Rules. While the origins of the Trinity were buried.

So the Catholic Church served as the eschatological basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings, as opposed to consent of the governed.

When the west went back to popular forms of government, it required separation of church and state, effectively culture and civics, morality and law.

Given Israel seems determined to gut any and all moral presumptions of the Judeo-Christian ethos, these sorts of issues will eventually have to be addressed.