I think he wants it all. His ideals say free speech should be allowed and he's okay with people being negative toward his ideas, but he'll keep pressing towards his other ideals of technology pushed to its wildest limits, even to the point of changing the way the Creator has intended his creation to be, because to him, God is not in the equation; or if God does exist for him, He is not something to be taken into account on a moral basis. Edited to add: I just watched a video where Elon says religion and science probably cannot co-exist. I think that is a problem.

I think he wants it all. His ideals say free speech should be allowed and he's okay with people being negative toward his ideas, but he'll keep pressing towards his other ideals of technology pushed to its wildest limits, even to the point of changing the way the Creator has intended his creation to be, because to him, God is not in the equation; or if God does exist for him, He is not something to be taken into account on a moral basis.