Most of us make our choices (be they heaven or hell, life or death, blessing or ruination) primarily on the basis of the testimony
of others, not because of any independent intellectual exercise. Those who succeed in freeing themselves of the “outdated worldview” characterized by belief in the existence and authority of God have merely accepted the default assumptions
of other, much more dubious would-be authorities.
Or put another way, “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools”.