The technology has evolved, but society is still stuck in the Bronze Age. Tribalism trumps logic.

Given the universal is the elemental, not the ideals to which we appeal, a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

Keep in mind democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family and cycle of life as godhead. The young god, born in the spring, to the old sky god and the earth mother.

To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Sort of like the religion.

Rome adopted Christianity for the monotheism as the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy Rules.

While the origins of the Trinity were shrouded in the Holy Ghost, as the Catholic Church didn't go for resets. Though Martin Luther tried.

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

The centripetal and centrifugal forces tearing Israeli society apart before Oct 7th are still there and across much of the developed world.

Eventually the underlaying physics has to be dealt with.

While the tribe feels compelled to follow the crazies down the rabbit hole, unless the sky opens and that stairway to heaven descends, it won't end well. Their theocracy doesn't have an ocean of oil, just the fact their tribal diety became the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of Western culture, which is rapidly going bankrupt.

Israel is just the boiler room in a collapsing building.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/gods-problems-cdab66ed5f04