John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readJun 30, 2024

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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 we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through and animating the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Morality is not absolute, as it couldn't be transgressed, if it were. Like a temperature below absolute zero.

Morals are the ideals, codes, behaviors, etc. that enable a healthy society.

Traditionally that one's status be a function of what one adds, not what one extracts. Which is why modern culture seems so necrotic.

Yet we have gone from tribes to nations of hundreds of millions of people in the last 3000 years, so there are ups and downs along the way. Trial and error.

Much more growing to do.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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