Are Atheists who Stand on Morality Conceding God?

[Purple Knight]

Question for Debate: Are atheists who stand on some sort of moral principle as absolute, conceding some sort of God?

I'm not saying a bearded man in the sky or even any conscious entity at all, but merely, something deserving of worship. If you say we want to make a society without murder because that will benefit everyone, that is different from saying, murder is wrong, just because, and that's the end of it. By doing the latter, even if the person is supposedly atheist, do they not give the same type of unconditional moral deference to that idea that is wrong "just because" that religious people give to God? Does this premise, that something is wrong just because, not take the space of a god? Is it not gaining faith, and worship?

In other words, I don't care if you worship a cardboard box, the sky, a tree, or a fortune you pulled out of a fortune cookie. If you give faith, you're arguably religious. And whatever you give faith to, is arguably a god.

[Purple Knight]

So here's what I think about self-identification. If you say you are something, you can be one of only two options:

1. Lying
2. Correct

...Because you have something that whatever that thing is, means to you, and you can't be simply mistaken about it without being fully delusional, because nobody knows a person better than themselves. They can be using an unconventional definition, but as to the definition broader society should accept, should we not take the one from people who do identify as that thing, versus those who do not?