I think that if we are going to progress, we need to first address the current God, or gods.

The logical fallacy of monotheism, of this father figure lawgiver as the source of all, is that 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 fact we are aware, then the details of which we are aware. More the new born child, than the wise old man. The source is basis, not apex.

When we conflate our ideals, which are aspirational, with the absolute, which is elemental, it creates this assumption of the ideal as absolute and the effect is a monoculture, where the Other becomes an affront to one's own true God.

Consider that democracy and republicanism evolved in pantheistic societies, which were the Ancients interpretation of multiculturalism, as there was no distinction between culture and civics. When we went back to these more broad based political systems, from the "divine right of kings," it required a separation of church and state, culture and civics. A large part of the problem Europe is having with integrating Muslims is that Islam doesn't recognize a distinction between the cultural framework of monotheism and the civil structure. Sharia law transcends national laws.

The reality is that good and bad are not some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience, from which all our higher order social concepts and contracts emerge, such as respect, responsibility, trust, honor, love, etc, as well as the negatives.

So trying to understand morality and ethics from a point of desired outcomes, rather than a evolutionary process, is like trying to learn computer programming by playing video games.

We are that dichotomy of raw organic energies driving us, versus the forms we develop in order to survive and function. The anarchies of desire, versus the tyrannies of judgement. The head and the heart. Youth and age, liberal and conservative. It's not either/or, it's two sides of the same coin. The resulting feedback builds up this complex reality.