The real problem is monotheism.

Ideals are not absolutes.

Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not and ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family and cycle of life as the godhead. The young god, born in the spring, of the old sky god and the earth mother. Though by the age of the Olympians, tradition prevailed over renewal and Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus.

To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

So Christianity was an amalgam of both.

Rome adopted it as state religion as the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic, to validate The Big Guy Rules. Renewal and the Trinity were banished to the shadows.

When the West went back to democracy and republicanism, it required the separation of church and state, culture and civics.

We are just reaching the point of reductio ad absurdum, of all the bugs in the social operating system.

Organisms are synchronization, ecosystems are harmonization. Nodes and networks.