Thanks. That's an intriquing analogy or model of the relation between Eastern and Western religions. There are various ways of describing religion's impact on society, of course. I've written about how theism primes us for oligarchy, or for the human form of the dominance hierarchy with the alphas on top. The gods are just mascots or literary expressions of the kingdom's cultural brand.
Polytheism is most explicit in this respect, whereas monotheism takes us back to Eastern mysticism, monism, or pantheism, as I write in my interpretation of Judaism. Yet exoteric monotheists make an idol of the one true God that's supposed to be transcendent and thus virtually nonexistent and irrelevant to human concerns (as Jewish pragmatism, satire, and world-weariness make clear).
