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

Good and bad are not some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience.

When we view our ideals as absolute and good as aspirational, rather than elemental, conflicts do become a race to the bottom, as all evolved higher order nuance and subjectivity is suspect.

The premise of relativism arose as a defensive response by the moral absolutism of monotheism. Necessarily everything is subject to its context. The signal is not truly separate from the noise.

Keep in mind that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, as that was how the Ancients formulated social diversity and multiculturalism. Monotheism equated with a monoculture, as in one people, one rule, one god.

The Romans adopted Christianity as the Empire solidified and remnants of the Republic were being discarded. Though vestiges of pantheism remained, as the Trinity. Which originated as the Greek year god cycle. The son reborn in the spring, of the sky god and the earth mother. Though the mother was denatured and the concept of regeneration was obscured, as the Catholic church assumed the role of eternal institution. At least until Martin Luther tried to do what Jsus had tried with Judaism, push the reset button.

The political consequence was 1500+ years of monarchy and feudalism. When the West went back to less centralized systems, it required the separation of church and state, culture and civics.

The reality is more a yin and yang, of desire and judgement, heart and head, motor and steering, than God Almighty.

Not all desires are healthy, nor all decisions wise, but that's why life is complicated.