What if it's all just an enormous house of cards?

Given the universal is the elemental, it would seem a spiritual absolute would necessarily be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through the film, than the narratives played out on it.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives necessarily at the core of every culture are ideals. The center of gravity, without which the society would break apart. Tower of Babel.

Having a tribal guardian angel is certainly useful, especially in hard times. Yet democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. Essentially the family and cycle of life as godhead. The young god, born in the spring, of 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. The old didn't give way to the young.

Which provided fertile ground, for the story of Jesus, as metaphor.

Yet by the time Rome adopted it as state religion, it too had started to calcify and so the monotheism served to validate the Empire rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy Rules. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The origins of the Trinity shrouded in the Holy Ghost.

As such, monotheism served as the eschatological basis for the next 1500 years of monarchy. Divine right of kings. When the West went back to democracy and republicanism, it required separation of church and state, essentially culture and civics.

The problem with making an Almighty God the moral policeman, was that as fear of God died, there was no other moral code to replace it, so the Will to Power rose to fill the void. Might is right.

Consider that Germany lost both WW1 and the Kaiser at the same time. What rose to fill that void was the rankest, rawest tribalism, The Aryan Nation, National Socialism.

As it is now, profit is the only principle at the core of our current culture and it's devolving into this monetized economic Ebola virus.

Given it's no longer the Bronze Age, maybe our social constructs need to evolve, as our technology has.