I think the deeper issue that will have to be faced, is the validity of monotheism.

Quite simply, ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The code, creed, heroes, narrative at the core of every culture are ideals. A communal center of gravity. Without which they would dissolve. Tower of Babel.

Yet they are not absolute. The universal is the elemental. 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 narratives played out on it.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Old Testament God was a tribal spirit. The soul of the tribe. Basically a monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

It was the New Testament version that was inclusive, rather than exclusive. The Golden Rule. Do unto others...

The essential myopia remains, that this Jewish tribal god does not extend beyond the tribe.

Yet it's no longer the Bronze Age. Tribes, nations, states, etc. exist as nodes in the larger network. Super organisms in the global ecosystem.

Given the extent to which the West has been defined by monotheism, trying to apply monist models to an evidently dualist reality, such that the two sides of the coin, from liberalism and conservatism, to men and women, are at war, these are foundational issues that will eventually have to be addressed.

I've been blocked on Substack for the following;

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/gods-problems-cdab66ed5f04