Is it really religion, or basic human psychology?
I occasionally point out in physics discussions, that as mobile organisms, our sentience coalesces as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience is of the present moving past to future, which physics codifies as measures of duration, yet the reality is that change turns future to past.
Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events rise and fall.
There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
Which makes time an effect, like temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.
Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't refer to them as dimensions of space, even though they are as, or more foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, as sequence is to thought.
Time is asymmetric, because it is a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction.
Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism.
I could continue, but I suspect you probably know the usual reactions I get for this observation. We are mortal, extremely finite creatures and once our minds get set in their ways, going back doesn't seem to be an option. It's like stem cells developing into mature cells.
As for monotheism, 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. Basically it's a political device. One people, one rule, one god. Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures.
When you get sucked into debating religion, you also spiral into the rabbit hole.
Synchronization is centripetal, harmonization is centrifugal. Nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems. Our sentient interface between body and world fluctuates in the middle.
