Logically 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.

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

Democracy and Republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The many as one.

Rome adopted a monotheistic sect as its state religion as the Empire was solidifying and remnants of the Republic were fading. It's useful having a religion that's top down, when your political system is as well. Divine right of kings. When the West went back to more broad based political systems, it required the separation of church and state, essentially culture and civics.

The problem for Islam is this relationship is reversed. The power of a common creed came before the birth of the political system based on it, so there is much less sense of politics separate from religion.

The fact is the formative experience for Judaism was the forty years in the desert, culminating in the Ten Commandments. So it made sense for the tribe as a singular organism, but in the larger reality, it's organisms and ecosystems, nodes and networks. One synchronizing, the other harmonizing. Two sides of the same coin. Yin and yang, rather than God Almighty.

After a few tens of thousands of years of going forth and multiplying and now getting close to the edge of the petri dish, we need to update our operating systems. More feedback and less linear propulsion.

Ideals are not absolutes and assuming them to be, even as a political convenience, creates an inherently conflicted society. Even the same god of both sides of the fence doesn't work, because they are not going to see anything beyond the tribal function and making that absolutist is total war.