There is one pervasive fallacy I would call the long shadow of God.

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

The ideal is aspirational, while the absolute is elemental.

The father figure lawgiver is a useful narrative device for instilling in a constantly regenerating population respect for culture and authority, but there is a significant problem in equating one's ideals with an absolute state, as it validates fanaticism. While literal monotheism has lost much of its cultural influence, the various beliefs and ideologies that have sought to replace it also treat their ideals as absolutes, from the Terrors of the French Revolution, to the Stalinist purges, to the bottom line of the financialized economy, to even the current woke culture. Debate and nuance are not allowed, when one's ideals are at stake.

We are goal oriented creatures, in a cyclical, reciprocal, feedback generated reality.