I think there is a lot building up to this, that goes much further into the collective psyche then the various tribal animosities that draw the attention.

For one thing, our minds are model building processes and the signals we extract from the noise are what synchronizes with our prior conceptual understandings. Then, as cultural and civilizational processes, we build on the knowledge handed down to us, as our forebears learned theirs.

The consequence of which is these pearls of culture and civilization are not only built on fairly primitive foundations, but multiples of reinterpretations. To the point they really don't make sense, but cannot be questioned.

For example, to culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, while in nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience.

That's because the function of culture is to get the group functioning as a larger social super organism, while nature is some enormous computational process, constantly building up and breaking down the nodes in the networks.

To the Ancients, gods were what we call ideals, memes, metaphors, etc. today. The conceptual constructs and focal points enabling thought and communication. Gods of youth, age, war, beauty, seas, sun, etc. Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, where the many ideas and ideals interacted.

In this world, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Politically expressed as monarchy. Ancient Israel was a monarchy.

The origins of the Christian Trinity go to the cycle of year gods. The young god, born in the spring, to the old sky god and earth mother. Though by the age of the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal. The old didn't give way to the young. Which provided very fertile ground for the story of Jesus, crucified for questioning the old order and risen in the spring, to take root.

Though by the time Constantine adopted it as the state religion of the Roman Empire, it too had started to calcify, so the monotheism served as validation of the coalescing of the Empire. The Big Guy Rules. While the origins of the Trinity were shrouded in the Holy Ghost. The revolution was co-opted.

So the Catholic Church 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.

Which has created a fine mess for the West.

The logical flaw in basic, modern monotheism, The All-knowing Absolute, in the words of Pope John Paul 2, is that ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the gravitational center of every society are ideals. Without which the culture would dissipate and scatter to the winds. Tower of Babel style.

The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental. So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

So now we have these various monotheistic religions and their multiples of sects, all proclaiming their ideal of the one god as the only true god and all others are false and misleading.

Then any other ideology seeking to gain a foothold also has to proclaim its universality, from capitalism and communism, to liberalism and conservatism.

While the reality is more the tension and feedback between the polarities. The anarchies of desire versus the tyrannies of judgement.

Energies of youth versus lessons of age.

More yin and yang, than God Almighty.

Without the ups and downs, it is a flatline.

Even galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

I could go on, but here is an essay;

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