I suspect a big part of the problem goes to monotheism itself.

Ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals.

The core codes, creeds, hereos, 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 we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

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

To the Ancients, monotheism meant monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Ancient Israel was a monarchy.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The many ideas, ideals, metaphors, etc. interacting.

The Christian Trinity originated out of fertility rites. The young god born in the spring to the old sky god and the earth mother. Though by the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal. Which gave fertile ground for the story of Jesus, risen in the spring, to take root. The new replacing the old. Aka, revolution.

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 consolidation of the Empire. Rule from above.

While the Trinity was shrouded by the Holy Ghost.

Catholicism 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 democracy and republicanism, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics.

Given Islam arose out of the recognition that a universal code was a powerful social tool and the political structures evolved around it, with Islam as their central core, this separation of religion and government is more problematic, than Christianity, where it was more of a marriage between religion and the state.

Yet the fact remains, ideals are not absolutes. When any creed insists their code is the only true code and all others are false, it is all against all. Even schisms within the various monotheistic religions tend to be at war with each other.

Morality is not absolute, as it could not be transgressed, if it were. Like temperature below absolute zero.

Morals are the ideals, the codes, habits, beliefs that enable a healthy society.

Traditionally that one's status would be a function of what one adds, not what one can extract.

Which is why our modern cultures are often so necrotic.

It has only been about 3000 years since humanity has gone from traditional tribes to nations of millions and hundreds of millions of people. It has been a slow but steady process of social evolution.

One with many steps to go.