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. The fact we are aware, than the details of which we are aware.

Conflating the ideal, which is aspirational, with the absolute, which is elemental, creates the assumption one's ideals are universal, rather than unique.

Then there can be no live and let live, as the Other is an affront to one's own True God.

The father figure lawgiver is a useful narrative device for a constantly regenerating population, but the philosophers haven't bothered to think it through, just dismiss it as metaphor.