Well, we could dispense with the monotheism.

Logically 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.

Ideals are not absolutes. It's a category error.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures.

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.

Constantine adopted Christianity for the monotheism, as the sides of the Empire were coming together. The Big Guy Rules.

The pantheistic aspects shrouded in the Trinity.

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.

The reality is more yin and yang, than God Almighty.

The opposite of the absolute is the infinite.

We are those tight little feedback loops in the middle.

The anarchies of desire versus the tyrannies of judgement.