That is true but what I'm describing isn't worship. Its self-pride and comparing ourselves to each other. Self-righteousness basically. Many things like this though get pinned on religion but in an ever increasingly non-religious world we still see the same traits pop up. Religions are just an easy whipping boy to blame for a problem that is inherent in our species. That's my sense at least. I guess you could say that the issue is worship of the self. If that's what you mean.

Religion is an easy external scapegoat. The problem is really us.