We really need to examine monotheism itself.

Ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals.

Rodin's The Thinker is an ideal.

The codes, heroes, narratives at the center of every culture are ideals.

The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental.

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 thing through and animating the film, than the stories playing out on it.

To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The many ideas and ideals competing.

The origins of the the Trinity go to the old year gods. The young god born in the spring, to the old sky god and the earth mother. Though by the age of the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal. Which was why the story of Jesus' resurrection had such fertile ground to take root.

By the time Constantine adopted Christianity as the state religion of Rome, it too had started to calcify, so the monotheism served to validate the Empire. Rule from above.

So the Catholic Church was 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 set, culture and civics.

So, for political reasons, the Israelite tribal god became the locus of Western civilization, as well as much of the East, as Islam also adopted the same tribal diety as its locus.

Yet for Judaism, it remains basically tribal. The chosen, versus everyone else, the goyim.

The reality is this Bronze Age tribalism had started to get past its sell by date, with the Roman Empire, as all the various tribes and groups had to come to terms with that larger networking and hierarchy.

The Jews refused and so they were kicked out.

The whole turn the other cheek, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, were basic efforts to come to terms with this larger networking. what goes round, comes round. Two wrongs don't make a right and if the cycle isn't broken, everyone is hurt.

Morality is not absolute, given it could not be transgressed, if it were. Like a temperature below absolute zero. Morals are the ideals that enable a healthy society.

Such as one's worth and status being a function of how much one adds, not how much one extracts.

That's necrotic. What if the cells in your body decided they were all going their own way and taking what they could? The effect would be similar to Ebola virus.

The fact is that there are a lot of old beliefs driving our behavior and it's getting time to clean out the mental attic.

Unfortunately those responsible, the academies, are the most embedded in these habits, of worshipping the assumptions on which culture is based.