Israel is missing that 2000 years of civil evolution, arising from a culture that is decidedly inward focused and lacking the constant reality checks required of governing.

As an increasingly closed echo chamber, yes, entropy is tearing way at it.

Ancient Israel was a monarchy. One people, one rule, one god.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The many ideas, metaphors, ideals interacting.

The source of the Trinity was the cycle of the year gods, the young god born in the spring to the old sky god and the earth mother. Though by the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus, Tradition prevailed over renewal. Which was why the story of Jesus had such fertile ground to take root.

Though by the time Constantine adopted it as the state religion of the Roman Empire, it was for the monotheism to validate rule from above. Divine right of kings, as opposed to consent of the governed.

The Trinity shrouded in the Holy Ghost as the Catholics didn't do resets, or women.

Luther tried, but only to overthrow the corruption. Though the rot was at the center of the big tree.

When the West went back to democracy and republicanism, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics.

The logical flaw in monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideas. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the gravitational center of every culture are ideals. Without which they would break up and be scattered to the winds.

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.

Science looks to the elements.

Art looks to the ideals.