This is one of the more troubling aspects of the parts of the Go community that I am exposed to--aggressive insularity. It's perhaps cyclical--in the past I've made similar criticisms of Node, and did of Ruby before the hype died down and the more aggressively enthusiastic people calmed down or moved on--but it's kind of a pain in the rear at present. That said, Go's deification of a single individual is unique to me; of Matz, Guido, Bjarne, Gosling, or Rasmus, I don't know any who are quoted as if it's by itself persuasive. What Rob Pike says about things is not necessarily correct--and sometimes it's not even accurate--but seems strangely, to Go advocates (as separate from "Go users"), to immediately enter a sort of canon to be trotted out at every opportunity.