Underlaying the cultural, social and political tensions are some profound conceptual, even physiological issues that will have to eventually be addressed.

For one thing, monotheism is logically flawed. Ideals are not absolutes. It is a category error.

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 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.

Morality is not absolute, as it couldn't be transgressed, if it were. Like a temperature below absolute zero.

Morals are the ideals, codes, beliefs, behaviors, habits, etc. that enable a healthy society.

Traditionally that one's status be a function of what one adds, not what one can extract. Which is why current cultures seem manifestly necrotic.

Though 3000 years is actually a fairly short to time to go from tribal cultures to nations of hundreds of millions of people. It is a work in progress.

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