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. So 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.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. Monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

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

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 provided fertile ground for the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, to take root, as metaphor.

Though by the time Constantine adopted it as the state religion of Rome, it too had started to calcify, so the monotheism served to validate the coming together of the Empire, while the origins of the Trinity were shrouded in the Holy Ghost.

The Catholic Church served as the eschatological basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings, as opposed to consent of the governed.

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

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, creeds, beliefs, relationships, etc, that enable a healthy society. Such as one's status being a function of what one adds, not what one can extract.

It is just that while the last 3000 years of going from mostly tribal cultures, to nation states of millions and billions of people might seem like a long time, in evolutionary terms, it is an eye blink.

Given that Judaism provided the tribal god that served as the locus of Western civilization, it is the most primal form of monotheism and therefore hardest to question.

To use sports as analogy;

For Judaism, it is the team.

For Catholicism and Orthodoxy, it is the referees.

For Islam, it is the rule book.

For Protestantism, it is the players.

To culture, good and bad are right and wrong, while the larger reality is that they are the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental.

That is because it is the function of culture to synchronize society as a larger super organism, based on the same languages, rules, measures, etc.

While the deeper reality is that often too much of a good thing can be bad and our intellectual abilities evolved as a function of dealing with the problems, than basking in the pleasures. No pain, no gain.

It is just that we have bumped up against the limits of our cultural ideals and overcoming those limits will be the journey of future generations.

I suspect that as this situation continues to develop, a schism will form in Judaism, between those sucked into this vortex and those holding to some larger humanity. It will be among those disenchanted with Zionism, who will be most interested in other ways to give focus and meaning to life, than obsessing over the trials and tribulations of an early Iron Age tribe.

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