It does seem religions are like the childhood memories of culture. Foundational to all that follows, but still should be taken with a few grains of salt.

The logical problem with monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes.

To the Ancients, gods were metaphors. Monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

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

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures.

Constantine adopted Christianity for the monotheism, as he was bring the sides of the Empire together. The Big Guy Rules. While the pantheistic aspects were shrouded in the Trinity.

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 popular forms of government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics, basically morality and law.

The problem isn't so much Israel, or the Jews, as that humanity has gone from basically tribal societies to nations of millions and now billions of people in what is in evolutionary terms, a fairly short time and while our technology is advanced, our social belief systems are still stuck fairly far in the past.

Reality is both nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems. Too much inward focus and the feedback loops kick into overdrive. The culture becomes a cult.

https://medium.com/counterarts/why-the-feedback-loops-need-circuit-breakers-531d1ab0fe0f