Keep in mind that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures.

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

Constantine adopted Christianity as the state religion of Rome for the monotheism, to validate the Empire and bury any remnants of the Republic.

While the pantheistic elements were shrouded in the Trinity.

So the Catholic Church was the eschatological basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings, as opposed to content of the governed.

When the West went back to popular forms of government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics, morality and law.

That Germany lost both the kaiser and WW1 around the same time, threw it back into the most primitive elements of tribalism. Aryan nation, National Socialism.

While our technologies are fairly evolved, our social and cultural models are still rooted in a mythological Bronze Age tribalism.

If every religion and cultural core, creed, center, etc, was messianic, there never would have been Anglo-Saxons, just Angles and Saxons still battling it out for eternity.

A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement from which it fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Morality is not absolute, as it couldn't be transgressed, if it were. Like a temperature below absolute zero.

Morals are the ideals, the codes, creeds, beliefs, habits, assumptions, etc, that enable a healthy society.

Traditionally that one's status be a function of what one adds, not what one can extract. It's just this last 3000 years, of going from mostly tribal societies to nations of millions and now billions of people has been a little rocky.