Guts and morals.

The logical fallacy of monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes.

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

The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental. So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

To the Ancients, the concept of gods were part of the process of intellectual evolution. The ideals, metaphors, memes that constituted public conversation. The idea of monotheism basically meant 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 many ideas and ideals interacting.

The origins of the Trinity arose out of fertility rites, as the young god born in the spring to the old sky god and the earth mother. Though by the age of the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal. Much as the old are loathe to give way to the young. Which was why the story of Jesus had such fertile ground to take root.

Though by the time Constantine adopted it as the state religion of the Roman Empire, the emphasis was back on tradition, with the monotheism validating the role of the Caesar. The Big Guy Rules.

Establishing the eschatological basis for the next 1500 years of European monarchy. Divine right of kings, as opposed to consent of the governed.

When the West went back to democracy and republicanism, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics.

Having had their tribal god become the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of Western Civilization hasn't really been a great favor to the Jews.

As the Greeks would say, Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make lucky.