Well, when you are an antelope, running with the herd, you can't exactly stop and scratch your ear.

Consider that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, as that was how the Ancients understood multicultural societies. To them, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. The Romans adopted Christianity as the Empire was solidified and any vestiges of the Republic were shed. When the West went back to populist forms of government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics.

The fallacy of monotheism is that a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. That we are aware, rather than what our collective awareness is centered on.

The tendency to see the ideal as absolute continues to permeate subsequent ideologies and belief systems, so no one can afford to be wrong, because good and bad are not seen as the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience, but a cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil.

People are naturally linear and goal oriented, but nature is cyclical, circular, reciprocal and feedback generated. Consequently we end up chasing our tails.

Or spiralling into the abyss.