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 and narratives on it.

Ideals are not absolutes and conflating them creates serious stress, for what should be obvious reasons, but it does seem actual intellegence is rare.

Consider that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead. To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion around the time the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic, basically to validate The Big Guy Rules.

To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, while in nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience. That's because it's the function of culture to synchronize the community into one larger social organism, based on the same languages, rules and measures, but nature is so diverse and yet integrated, because everything doesn't march to the beat of the same drummer.

I could continue, but suffice to say, I avoided anything resembling a formal education with a passion. It's not about insight, it's about training.