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

Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Just like the religion.

The Romans adopted Christianity for the monotheism, not the Trinity, as the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic, to validate The Big Guy Rules.

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

The universal is the elemental, not the ideal, so a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Though every culture has their ideals, codes of conduct, heroes, narratives, as a gravitational center. Without which they would break apart. Tower of Babel. There is just no one universal creed, no one center of all culture.

Our technologies have evolved, but our cultures are still stuck in some Bronze Age ruts.