To the Ancients, gods were metaphors.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures.

Like all useful ideas, theory becomes doctrine.

Ancient Israel was a monarchy. Constantine adopted Christianity for the monotheism as he brought the Empire together.

The Catholic Church was the eschatological basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings, rather than consent of the governed.

When the West went back to popular forms of government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics, morality and law.

Quite simply, ideals are not absolutes. A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Western logic is very object oriented, from atoms to individuals.

Current cosmology, the concept of the universe as singular, fails on its own premises.

If intergalactic space were to expand, the speed of the light crossing it should increase proportionally, in order to remain constant.

Instead, two metrics are being derived from the speed and spectrum of the same light.

Given it is an expanding space and not tired light theory, speed is still the denominator.

Look it up and you will see it argued, that since the Inflation stage, the universe has expanded from 22 million lightyears to 48 billion lightyears, though it took light 13.8 billion years to cross it.

What is the speed of light measuring, if not space?

Epicycles were brilliant math, as a model of our point of view. Big Bang theory isn't even good math.

If the premises are flawed, all the "shut up and calculate" is just GIGO.

Once it becomes doctrine, theories can only be patched, never falsified.