and if that mind everywhere on earth has demonstrated the need to believe in a meaning-imparting deity or deities to keep it from emotional disorganization and collapse, complaining about it seems to be extraordinarily small-minded.

A big If... But no, it's not small minded, on the contrary. It accepts all of the above as one small part of the picture, but it also accepts (as we must) that they can't all be right, but they can all be wrong - and that wrongness is inherent in the nature of religious belief, that the real dangers come from believing it to be true for others.

So we fit that into the Human Scheme, our capacity for delusion and idiocy which exists side by side with The Questing Mind which will never come to an end of its questioning, that the next lot of questions haven't even been dreamt of yet. Meanwhile, the myth process continues - from The Kalevala to Rendezvous with Rama - in the hope that no one starts to believe any of it, or, more to the point, judging others for being of a different mythic mind.

Atheism and Adeism are still the default states. God is no more driving the universe than Captain Kirk is at the helm of the Starship Enterprise.