You could take issue with many people who have been singled out for canonisation, even deification - ask Salman Rushdie.

Look at the hot water I get into on Mudcat, bcause it is self evident to me that half the traditional folksongs aren't worth saving and would have been better left in the library or the dustbin. (We have tradition in this country like some houses have rats.) Songs get selected for reverence - not just people. Dull unmemorable ones.

Nevertheless, at some point, you have to take aboard the fact that this is the altar some people have chosen to worship at. Your relationship is unlikely to progress until you accept that.