The logical issue I see with monotheism 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 new born, than the wise old man. More the light shining through the film, than the images on it. The consciousness striving for knowledge, than any form it happens to manifest.

This top down father figure lawgiver and his ten commandments seems to serve more of a political, than spiritual function, validating the divine right of kings. It was when we went back to more democratic political conventions, which originated in pan and poly theistic societies, that we needed a separation of church and state.

The primary problem of assigning absolute status to what are necessarily cultural ideals, is that it empowers fundamentalism. The most culturally reductionist must be the most pure of spirit.

Good and bad are not a dual between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. What is good for the fox, is bad for the chicken and there isn’t much happy middle ground, other than the energy of the chicken becoming the energy of the fox.

Which gets to the issue of time. As mobile organisms, who’ve built civilizations out of the collective knowledge we shared of our journeys, this narrative flow, from past to future, seems fundamental, but it is an effect of change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. There is only this present state, that is not so much a point between past and future, but the configuration of the energy manifesting the changing dynamic. The light shining through. Like the energy, consciousness goes from prior to succeeding thoughts, as these mental configurations come and go.

As Emerson put it; “We are but thickened light.”