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. Assuming ideals as absolute only empowers the close minded and confuses the open minded.

Good and bad are not some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. Treating good as an ideal makes as much sense as treating yes as an ideal. For one thing, all the higher order complexity, nuance and subjectivity is suspect in the race to the bottom, of simple black and white.

The father figure lawgiver is a political construct, analogous to monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheisitic cultures, as analogies of multiculuralism. The Romans adopted and co-opted gnostic Christianity as the Empire solidified and vestiges of the Republic faded. When the West went back to less centralized political systems, it required the separation of church and state, culture and civics.