What’s important is that you deny this elephant giving you instructions on what’s right and even punishing you. This affects your behavior comparing to people who are convienced that elephant is real and consequential. But really what I meant in the original comment is there are people who are happy with their shoulder elephant and don’t bother anyone else. But others impose their elephant on others. Similarly, some people deny shoulder elephant existance and would make effort to spread this idea of elephant absence to others.

It’s true that the quoted religions are notable for evangelism in different forms. But what I am saying is that the more important opposition should be to these authoritharian world views, religious or not. And not so much to likely incorrect (or in some cases even certainly incorrect) shoulder elephant ideas.