I think the problems go to the root of Western civilization and Israel is just the eye of the storm.

Consider that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. To the Ancients, monotheism equate with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion.

Constantine adopted Christianity for the monotheism, as the Empire was coming together. The Big Guy Rules.

While the pantheistic elements were shrouded in the Trinity.

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, effectively culture and civics, morality and law.

The fallacy of monotheism, the Catholic "all-knowing absolute," is that ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the 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 the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Morality is not absolute, as it couldn't be transgressed, if it were. Like a temperature below absolute zero.

Morals are the codes, habits, relationships, etc. that enable a healthy society. Traditionally that one's status is a function of what one adds, not what one can extract.

I put this in an essay;

https://johnmerryman.substack.com/p/gods-problems

That got me blocked from further posting or commenting on Substack and having run up against a wall when trying to dig into it, apparently not just a rogue moderator. So digging down into the actual history does raise some hackles. Hoping to keep raising them.

https://johnbrodixmerrymanjr.medium.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-western-mind-906dc73cffe2