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In my last blog, I discussed the consequences of monotheism with its emphasis on divine ontology and transcendence, the belief that is God is a divine being distinct from us.  Here I want to briefly discuss the consequences of an externalized deity that becomes replaced by ideological absolutes.   The twentieth century did not merely witness violence—it industrialized it, systematized it, and justified it through the very logic of separation that monotheism and mechanistic science had normalized. Two world wars transformed technological prowess into unprecedented slaughter, where poison gas, machine guns, aerial bombardment, and finally atomic weapons demonstrated what becomes possible when humans are viewed through the lens of tactical abstraction rather than sacred interconnection. The Holocaust, the Armenian genocide,...