It is certainly tribal in nature.

The problem does go to the premise of monotheism.

Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and/or judgement, from which we fell. The fact we are all aware, than whatever set of beliefs our particular group esposes.

The Ancients were not entirely ignorant of monotheism, but as there was no distinction between culture and civics, it equated with a monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, as that was how multiculturalism was metaphorically conceived. Many organic elements interacting, with the cycling of the seasons and regeneration as primary.

The Romans adopted Christianity as the Empire solidified and reminders of the Republic were being shed. It was an exercise in branding, to adopt the cool and edgy system, though editing, co-opting and corporatizing it, to make it properly establishment friendly. Thus gnostic Christianity became the Catholic Church. It even retained hints of pantheism, with the Trinity. Which was a heavily edited reference to the Greek years gods, the constant cycling of the seasons. The son as life reborn, of the sky god and the earth mother. Though the earth mother was neutered to become the holy ghost.

Given the Church came to be the eternal institution, the issue of regeneration couldn't exactly be emphasized either. At least until Luther tried to do to the Church what Jesus had tried to do with Judaism, push the reset button.

Consequently the default political system for Europe, for the next thousand plus years was monarchy and feudalism. The Big Guy at the top is divine.

When the West went back to less centralized forms of government, it required the separation of church and state, culture and civics. Though that long shadow of assuming one's ideals to be absolute permeates many of the ideologies to follow.

The fact is that monotheism is a very powerful concept, yet it is communal and tribal in origin. That the individual is one cell of the communal body. We all understand the power of the crowd and group think.

What is the basis of modern Judaism, is this collective identity, scattered across many lands. Such that they came to form much of the networks tying together the many nodes of European kingdoms. The traders, bankers, intellectuals, doctors, scientists, etc, that had the position of being outsiders looking in and able to more objectively compare and contrast the many elements.

Yet this made Judaism almost exclusively a religion, without the constant cycle of political conformity and regeneration it would have had, if it also served a political function.

So when these essentially feudal European political systems met the technological advances in warmaking, Jews were largely in the parts of society caught in the crossfire. The Germans can be equally tribal and when the communal body goes into auto-immune, it can tear itself apart.

So Europe, in remorse over its own barbarism, enabled the return to the biblical heartland, of a religion with little political nuance.

The fact is that good and bad are not some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. What is good for the fox, is bad for the chicken. From which civilization evolved upward, not the goal toward which this evolving complexity serves. The ideal is aspirational, while the absolute is elemental.

When conflicts are seen in binary terms, they do become a race to the bottom, as all evolved nuance and subjectivity is suspect.

Life is not fundamentally linear, but cyclical, circular, reciprocal and feedback generated, so rather than it being about that pot of gold at the end of the narrative arc, it's more cycles of feedback, where what was positive feedback can switch over to negative feedback and vice versa, if we always assume that if some is good, more must always be better.

The fact is, we are all human and fluctuate between the anarchies of desire and the tyrannies of judgement. Not all desires are healthy, nor all decisions wise. So we constantly have to adjust, not blindly follow one creed or another.