This cultural construct referred to as "God" does need some deeper examination.

To the Ancients, gods were ideals, metaphors, memes. The constructs of thought and conversation. The locus and reference points of observation and agreement. Gods of love, war, beauty, seas, hunting, etc.

In this context, monotheism meant monoculturalism. One people, one rule, one god. The tribal spirit personified. Ancient Israel was also a monarchy. The Big Guy rules. Like the religion.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The myriad elements, ideals, factions, forces interacting.

The origins of the Christian Trinity go to fertility rites. The young god born in the spring to the old sky god and the earth mother.

Though by the time of the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal. The old didn't make room for the young.

Which was why the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus had such fertile ground to take root.

Though by the time Constantine adopted it as the state religion of Rome, he was bringing the sides of the Empire together and the pantheism didn't serve his purposes, so by adopting Christianity, he formalized the monotheism, while the origins of the Trinity were again sidelined and obscured by the Holy Ghost replacing the earth mother.

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

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

Since then the Gods of Mammon have taken over.

The logical flaw in Catholic monotheism, "the all-knowing absolute," 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.

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