That video isn't really about "putting god into society"; it's about trying to change the god in a society. The Hindu people of India were hardly paragons of secularism before the Christian missionaries came and upset their system.

Actually Peter you got the gist of what I meant. Having a personal god was an advancement over a Pantheon (evolution of ideas). I meant you personally mattered to your God without having to be really all that special.

I'm not convinced that's true. Democracy was invented by polytheists in Athens, while monotheists seem to have a penchant for monarchy and fascism. (But monotheism versus polytheism is probably more complex. See Robert Sapolsky's fasinating essay, "Are the Desert People Winning?" If you can find a copy of his book The Trouble with Testosterone, see also his essay "Circling the Blanket for God," which is the last one in that volume.)

Either way, a theistic system for social organization was almost certainly an important advance. But I find it interesting to contrast, for example, the priestly-prophetic form of governance in the Hebrew scriptures against the randomizing effects of how polytheism worked in Greece. Could the people of Israel wandering in the desert have managed with a cryptic oracle?