It does seem we are coming face to face with the central fallacy of monotheism.

Ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. They are the goals we seek.

The absolute would be the most elemental state. No divisions, distinctions, qualifications, etc. Like a temperature of absolute zero.

Necessarily a spiritual absolute would be that essence of sentience, the spark of life, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through and animating the film, than the narratives played out on it.

To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

The formative experience for Judaism was the forty years in the desert, giving the Ten Commandments to the Old Testament. Basically rules for a functional society. Obey god/the spirit of the group, don't mess with your neighbor's wife, take his stuff, etc.

Not quite trial by a jury of one's peers, freedom of speech, etc, but a good start.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family and cycle of life as godhead. The young god born in the spring, of the old sky god and the earth mother. Though by the time of the Olympians, tradition prevailed over renewal and Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus.

Which, along with similar social and economic issues, provided fertile ground for the story of Jesus' crucifixion and rising to take root.

Though by the time Rome adopted it as state religion, tradition had started to take hold again and it was the monotheism that mattered, to validate the Empire rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy rules. While the origins of the Trinity were buried under the Holy Ghost.

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

The problem with the consequence of the idea of one universal god, source of wisdom and order, Pope John Paul 2's "all-knowing absolute," is that if one's creed is the only true creed, than all others are not only false, but an affront to the one true system of belief.

The deeper issue is that knowledge and structure is inherently centripetal, so there is that necessary coalescing, gravitating around that central principle and the heroes supporting it, so when there is no recognition that others will have other gravitational cores, it becomes all against all.

One is the node, oneness is the network.

Organisms synchronize, ecosystems harmonize.