How deep does it really go?

Consider democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures.

To the Ancients, gods were metaphors.

Monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

Constantine adopted Christianity for the monotheism, as the Empire was coming together. Shrouding the pantheism in the Trinity.

So the Catholic church was 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, culture and civics, morality and law.

The problem with the modern concept of monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes.

A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

If one assumes one's ideals are absolute, there is no negotiation.

This overarching detachment goes to the core of Western civilization.

The mother of all reality checks is in the mail.