Ideals are not absolutes. It's a category error.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals.

The core codes creeds, heroes, narratives at the center of every culture are ideals.

Th 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 thorough the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures.

Constantine adopted Christianity for the monotheism as the sides of the Empire came together. The Big Guy Rules. The pantheistic aspect was 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 democracy and republicanism, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics, morality and law.

Now the only god is money.