Atheism is pantheistic nature worship.
One inexorable thing about religion is that human beings cannot escape it. Whether we change the words or deny them outright, religion describes (accurately) the way by which we relate to that which we find most true, compelling, and valuable.
A Christian, for example, finds Christ most true, most compelling, and most valuable.
Supposedly, an atheist finds science most true, most compelling, and most valuable.
Science, however, is not a thing or a content, but a methodology, one by which one filters varying types of empirical observations about nature. It is actually totally nature-focused, and as such gives nature pride of place as that which must be submitted to. In fact, this is what is indicated by saying atheism is nature worship.
Now, because atheism does not recognize an authority higher than nature, nature therefore stands in for its highest truth and authority, that which cannot be overcome, countermanded, or escaped. Practically speaking, whether something is true or not, whatever is one's highest truth or principle is one's god. As such, atheists treat nature as god, and so, since there is nothing beyond nature according to such naturalism, they are in this sense quite pantheistic.
Pantheism is the idea that god is Thing, and is All the Things. It fails to recognize a transcendental reality, but collapses on an extreme focus on material reality, infusing ultimate meaning therein and admitting nothing beyond it. This is precisely the position of atheism.
Atheism is thus just a modern form of an old saw: pantheistic nature worship. Do not let its reductive materialism, scientism, and advanced technology fool you, for these are merely a thin veneer masking one of the most primitive types of mentality.
