Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.
To improve the human condition in the human world, the humans have to rise and act out of conscience, not of delusion. And be careful not to let your focus be on taking away peopleβs Gods, because if you do, people wonβt even let you in their lives. Let your focus be on improving human condition, and when that job begins to show results, eventually the world will get rid of the man-made Gods. Only when people truly know that there are humans willing to be next to them in times of their distress, that they can let go of their imaginary Gods. And thatβs the day when human conscience will truly reign over the human world.
Unfortunately, human progress is generally determined not by our spiritual, our emotional, and our intellectual development but by that of our technologies.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.