The problem with 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.

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.

If every Bronze Age tribe viewed its core ideals as absolute and beyond question, there never would have been Anglo-Saxons, just Angles and Saxons, battling it out for eternity.

The Zionists, as the radical Jews, are basically re-litigating the conflict the Maccabees had with the Romans, that their god did not acquiesce to any external factions.

Remember, democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules, like the religion.

Constantine adopted Christianity for the monotheism, as the sides of the Empire came together. The Big Guy Rules. While the pantheism was cloaked by the Trinity.

The Catholic Church was the eschatological basis for 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, morality and law.

What is happening isn't just some feud between various communities on the east coast of the Mediterranean, but the fracturing of Western Civilization.

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