Atheism worships a dead god.

[Entropist]

Interesting how there are a lot of believers (of the more fundamentalist kind, practically all of them) who insist that EVERYONE "worships" something or other-- if not their one true god, then it must be one's own ego, or something. They can't conceive of a life that is not devoted to some "god" or other, even if it a false one.

This says more about the mindset of the believer than anything else: his/her perceived need to be connected to something assuring, granting some kind of security in a world that obviously grants no such guarantees. It all simply comes down to fear and insecurity. These are biological needs projected into the metaphysical-- or in more down-to-earth terms: wishful thinking (though the term "thought" may be debatable).

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Also to add: Hence the obsession with a variety of syllogisms connecting a god to "morality"-- that god in question is supposed to be the believer's metaphysical guarantee that they are safe from harm. And the more insecure the believer, the more the outrage at those who don't believe the same thing (and consequently, the more fundamentalist they likely are to be).