The kernel of Backyard Church's argument is plausible. We have a hierarchy of values, and there's a human impulse to regard something as sacred and of ultimate importance. In an attenuated sense, we can say we all have at least a private religion, something we love and revere.

But it doesn't follow that atheism in the relevant, narrow sense is impossible. As I show, what follows more clearly is that, if anything, theism is impossible. Once we grow out of our idols and search for something transcendent, we grow out of anthropocentric, exoteric theism too. Even the world's great religions have their idols.