I've tried to make some sense of religion and under the details, a lot of it does.

Let's just say, every pearl needs that grain of sand at the center.

Though the problem with monotheism is that a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through the film, than the images on it.

The synchronization, which is centripetal, has to be balanced by the harmonization, which is effectively centrifugal. Nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.

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

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead.

The Romans adopted and co-opted a rebellious monotheistic sect to be the state religion, as the Empire was solidifying and remnants of the Republic were fading, because it validates The Big Guy Rules.

When the West went back to more broad based political systems, it required the separation of church and state, effectively culture and civics.

The problem that remains, is that ideals are not absolutes. A culture founded on the principle is inherently fractious, as all the various ideals and ideologies battle to the death.

Though what gives meaning to life is what you add to it, not what you take from it. It's like a sentence. The end is just punctuation. What matters is how well you tie the rest of the story together.

Consciousness is the interface between our body and its world. We are both the node and the network.

More yin and yang, than God Almighty.