The scales we use to measure
cultural worldviews likely overlap with a large range of more particular, local ties that systematically connect individuals to others with whom they are most comfortable and most adept at exercising their «who knows what they are talking about» capacities.
It's simply one of hundreds,
likely thousands of misunderstandings of ancient texts, which were mistranslated and hijacked later for assorted purposes, and taken out of their original
cultural context, and used to suit a later
worldview, which had nothing to do with their original meaning and iintent.