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Look at the James Damore situation and tell me how it's any different from Christians excommunicating heretics hundreds of years ago. The shaming and depiction of the opposition as fundamentally evil is identical

Everybody worships something, whether you call it a religion or not is irrelevant

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Thanks for assuming but I do not worship anything.

If you hold any morals or ideals as having value, then you're beholden to some belief. Whether that's considered "worship" is just semantics

The only alternative is that you have nothing you actually believe in, which for your sake I hope isn't true.

Being beholden to beliefs is common to all people. But worship, to show reverence and adoration (for a deity), implies something entirely different than belief.

Worship implies faith (ie belief in the absence of evidence). That difference is not just semantics, it's a fundamental distinction. Christians believe you require faith in Christ to be a Christian.

Atheists and Christians believe in stop signs, neither worship them.

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