The irresistible force versus the immoveable object?

At what point does the underlaying model break?

The logical flaw in monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes.

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

The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental.

A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, or love, from which we fell.

More the light shining through the film, than the images and narratives played out on it.

Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules, like the religion.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family and cycle of life as the ideal, the godhead. The young god, born in the spring, to the old sky god and the earth mother.

Christianity is an amalgam. Yet by the time Rome adopted it as state religion, 300 years after Jesus, it was the monotheism that mattered, to validate the Empire rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy Rules. The origins of the Trinity shrouded in the Holy Ghost.

Which became the eschatological basis for the next 1500+ years of 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.

Having the Jewish tribal god become the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of Western culture probably hasn't been a huge favor to Jews.

When someone like Netanyahu ends up in charge, maybe it's a hint that turning the clock back 2000 years isn't going as planned. Not exactly King Solomon.

There are angels and assholes in all creeds and cultures and this will likely be the schism in Judaism that is coming.

When it's millions and billions of people, it's not so much culture and politics, as it's biology and physics. What goes round, comes round.

More yin and yang, than God Almighty.