Some believers think that atheists worship themselves. The idea is, roughly, that if a person follows his own will instead of God’s will, then he’s putting faith in himself just as believers put faith in God. In living according to his mind and heart rather than by the rules of God, an atheist is putting himself in God’s place.
That path of logic makes sense if you believe that God exists and that he reigns over people. But if you don’t, those ideas are nonsense. If a person doesn’t believe that God exists, then he doesn’t believe that he’s putting himself in God’s place.
What’s more, worship usually involves revering, adoring, and surrendering to whatever you worship. Using your own thoughts and feelings instead of God to guide your actions may be a lot of things, but it’s not nearly as intense as worship.
Of course, some atheists do adore and revered themselves, while other atheists doubt or hate themselves, and still others fall in between. When it comes to trusting their own judgment, atheists are pretty much like other people.
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