The problem is that ideals are not absolutes.

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 the film, than the stories playing out on it.

To the Ancients, gods were metaphors. Monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The origins of the Christian Trinity go to fertility rites. The young god born in the spring to the old sky god and earth mother.

Though by the age of the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal. Which was why the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus had such resonance.

Though by the time Constantine co-opted it as the state religion of Rome, too had started to calcify, so the monotheism served to validate the Empire, the Big Guy Rules, while the origins and implications of the Trinity were shrouded in the Holy Ghost .

So the Catholic Church served as the eschatological basis for European monarchy, divine right of kings, as opposed to consent of the governed. Making the Jewish tribal god the locus of Western Civilization. The totem at the center of the village, so to speak.

When the West went back to popular forms of government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics, morality and law.

The fact is that morality is not absolute, as it couldn't be transgressed, if it were. Like a temperature below absolute zero. morals are the ideals, the codes, habits, assumptions, etc that enable a healthy society. traditionally that one's status be a function of what one can add, not what one can extract.

It is just that while this last 3000 years, of going from mostly tribal societies, to nations of millions and now billions of people, might seem a long time, from our human scale, on evolutionary terms, it's a eye blink.

One of the reasons history seems to repeat, is when we don't learn the lessons the first time. The Zionists would seem to be re-litigating the problem the Maccabees had with the Romans. That their god didn't concede to other gods.

We will see how it works this time around.