No matter how much or how many believe, ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the gravitational center of every culture are ideals.

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

Morality is not absolute, as it could not be transgressed, if it were. Like a temperature below absolute zero.

Morals are the ideals, the habits, codes, behaviors that enable a healthy society. Such as one's status and value a function of what one adds, not what one extracts. That is why our society seems necrotic. Why the young don't want to have kids, because they are just mules for the rich.

It would seem the basic, everyday ideal of Judaism remains that Bronze Age tribalism, that couldn't quite accept the larger hierarchy of the Roman Empire. Those most vociferous that the Jewish God not bow to the Roman gods were the Zealots. Now it seems to be the Zionists insisting their God will save them from the larger world.

Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The many ideas and ideals interacting. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion.

Constantine adopted Christianity for the monotheism, as he brought the Empire together. The Big Guy Rules.

Providing the eschatological basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings. As opposed to consent of the governed.

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

People really are thick, but knowledge is a function of learning from one's mistakes, not simply enjoying being right. Trial and error.

Maybe a little less Torah and a little more Darwin, given Israel seems determined to live by the law of the jungle.

God is desire.

Wisdom is that old bitch with the stick.