Sam,

I'm probably not the sort of person you are seeking to engage, as I tend to have generally heretical views, but since you have joined Medium and sound interested in feedback, I thought I'd offer some of my thoughts;

The logical fallacy in monotheism is that 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, on the other hand, is the elemental.

So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgment, from which it fell.

The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

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

Morals are the ideals that enable a healthy society. The beliefs, behaviors, codes, rules, examples etc. that guide the community to function productively.

Traditionally that one's status be a function of what one adds, not what one can extract.

Yet we have gone from basically tribal cultures to nations of hundreds of millions of people in the relatively ecologically short time of several thousand years and have much to learn.

Here is my most recent essay;

https://johnbrodixmerrymanjr.medium.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-western-mind-906dc73cffe2