I think we look at morality from an idealized, rather than logical perspective.
For one thing, good and bad are not the cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, that theology presumes, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of life. Even bacteria sense that.
So what we, as fairly complex social organisms experience, is emergent from that base, but since we turn around and place it on a pedestal, we lose sight of the moral and ethical structure making civilization possible.
All the higher order ethics; honor, respect, responsibility, trust, empathy, sympathy, humility, etc. are emergent from this elemental binary of attraction/repulsion. Which we, at that base level, experience as fear/greed.
The effect then, is when conflicts arise, we loose sight of this evolved social complexity and it becomes a race to the bottom, of us, versus them, rather than each side holding the other’s feet to the fire of responsibility for sustaining the fabric of civilization.
This does go to the notion of God, as spiritual absolute. Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the new born, than the wise old man. consciousness seeking knowledge, than any form or brand of it. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.
The real tension in life is between the desire of that raw sentience, bubbling up, versus the need to control and direct it. The heart versus the head. The anarchy of desire, versus the tyranny of judgement.
Even galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in.
As these play out over time, the forms become ever more complex. Yet the judgement only really referees the emotions, as it is emergent from them and this sentience giving rise to them.
The father figure lawgiver is a social construct, to validate that top down order, not a logical conclusion. The absolute and the ideal are very different aspects of understanding. Conflating them casts a long shadow over civilization.
It’s more yin and yang, than God Almighty.
The opposite of the absolute is the infinite. So we fluctuate between the absolute, where all sums out, and the infinite, where all fades out.
