One of my favorite authers is Gilbert Murray and one of his observations is that to the Ancients, monotheism was monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures and when the West went back to more broad based political systems, it required the separation of church and state, culture and civics.

Given the Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as a state religion, at the time the Empire was solidifying and remnants the Republic had significantly faded, the ulterior motives should be taken into account.

What I see as the logical fallacy of monotheism, the all-knowing absolute, in the words of Pope John Paul 2, is that a spiritual absolute would necessarily 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.

Premising an entire culture on the assumption that ideals should be absolute would seem to be inherently divisive, as ideals are subjective.

Many of the ideologies to grow up in the shadow of monotheism have sought to treat their ideals as absolute and it's caused quite a bit of drama and trauma.