A ferrari, w/c I know very little, tells me 2 things. A car of excellence ie fast, precise, aesthetic but it also says wealth. Clothes, architecture etc. also are a means of human communicating without speaking. Dogs can also relay ideas but moreso with scents like pissing on a fire hydrant. The gist of this is that for every idea there corresponds other idea(s). The problem though is that all corresponding ideas can be misinterpreted.
What does this have to do with atheism? The answer lies in the quote, "...The notion that God is merely the outward projection of man's inward nature..." -Ludwig Feuerbach and in the notion that morality-> God=ideal morality (vs the more monotheistic religions idea that God->morality).
Let me clarify, let me speculate on a being that is ideal in my morality (all powerful,all good, something that really humiliates me in every sense x's infinite when I am compared to it). Where did this being come from? It came from my idea. An idea that I strive to be like but cannot reach. This ideal is God. And everyone has an ideal of morality, even atheists.
Where mankind has gone astray is that an idea of an idea of a perfect being has to be defined. Throughout history, mankind has defined ideas through his corresponding surroundings. A fork in the road=> a decision, see clearly vs foggy nebulous=understand vs don't understand, troubled waters-bad times, deep=far reaching etc. etc. It is difficult to define the word "the" because we cannot correspond it to anything we see in our surroundings. Similarly a four dimension box is hard to "see" in our minds. God is far easier to understand as a tangible/seeable being than as an idea of the perfect being. Try explaining to a young child that god is an idea of an ideal.
Lastly, when Nietzsche noted that God was dead, he feared that since mankind derived his morality from God ie morality was reduced to God, that terrible things were on the way. God's death would shake the foundation of man's morality. God-> morality vs morality-> god.
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