It's the resonance and synchronization that's the issue. That structure tends to coalesce.

The signals your mind picks up from the noise are what resonates and synchronizes with your prior beliefs and models. Then you bond with those on similar wavelengths.

Galaxies, the structure coalesces in. Gravity.

That gravitational center of a society are the ideals. The codes, creeds, heroes, narratives around which they collect. Look at the Bible. The Convent with God is the Ten Commandments. The code at the center of the culture. Yet all it really is, is some basic rules for a functional society. Don't mess with your neighbor's wife, take his stuff, insult God, covet, aka get carried away by desires, etc.

It becomes the eye of the storm, the grain of sand at the center of the pearl. Yet it is the energy and desire of the society that gives it power.

That Judaism managed to keep their theistic concept fairly amorphous, made it useful as a blank sheet to collect anyone's preferred ideal. Just as you assign it love, others might assign it power, tribal affiliation, solidarity, even group ego. Which without something definite to give it structure, there is nothing to stop the feedback. No circuit breaker to keep it from spiraling out of control. The tribe/religion is God.

The Old Testament God and the New Testament God had seriously different attitudes.

That through the intermediary of Christianity, the Jewish tribal deity became the grain of sand at the center of Western civilization, as well as Islam, was an extremely powerful ego boost to the religion.

Would the idea of "The Chosen People" been as strong, if some other tribe's God/ideal/code/narrative happened to be the one The West coalesced around?

Think of all the other religions, now referred to as pagan and they all had their codes, heroes, narratives, etc. As I keep pointing out, democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. Which is the basis of the Christian Trinity.

While the Catholic Church preached to never question, the Socratic method was to question everything.

I may have posted this previously, but it offers a good insight into this history;

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30250/30250-h/30250-h.htm

Just read the preface and you will sense how much has been buried by history.