I certainly agree with you in spirit, but in detail, don't these issues go back to the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church co-opting gnostic Christianity, because they needed a monolithic/monotheistic paradigm to validate their early form of globalism?

I think the most insightful book I've read on western civilization and the origins of Christianity is The Five Stages of Greek Religion, by Gilbert Murray;

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30250/30250-h/30250-h.htm

My problem isn't with Christianity, but the assumptions and logic on which monotheism is premised do lead to a form of cultural absolutism, that does empower the close minded and confuse the open minded.

Synchronizing everyone into one cultural vortex, rather than harmonizing the multitudes of voices.