The false self and our knowledge of it's deception proves God.

[Neo-Scholastic]

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Okay, MK, I’ve been defending you  on other threads on the assumption that the diction of your arguments seem to reflect a different cultural perspective. I have said that you should be taken seriously and not ridiculed based on cultural prejudice. So I’m going to follow my own advice and try to translate your argument into the nomenclature of Western philosophy and see if I am right. So here I go:

1. In order from there to be values, something must have the highest value.
2. An individual’s life is his highest value.
3. Not everyone’s life can have the truly highest value.
4. Therefore an individual cannot believe another’s life is more valuable than his own.
5. Therefore an individual must believe either( a) the value of his life is higher that everyone else’s or (b) all lives have equal value.
6. No individual truly believes (a), i.e. he is lying to himself (making himself a false god)
7. If the individual believes (b) all lives have equal value, then he cannot accept Premise 1.

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So either...

8a. There idea of relative value is meaningless.

Or...

8b. There is something of higher value than any particular human life.

Since either 8a or 8b could be a valid conclusion, I do not consider this an argument in favor of God; but rather, the revealing of an existential choice.  Someone can be justified in believing either, but the one he or she chooses expresses something about who they are and what they actually believe.

You are right, well, we can just say "value is not meaningless" and then 8b would follow.

Many atheists do not follow their "lack of belief" to its logical conclusion. They think it is possible to consider some things praiseworthy and other less so. And yet they have no reason to support how that can be.